Thread: How to configure automatically hundreds of ebooks lying on my hard drive
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Old 02-27-2010, 10:00 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by akkachotu View Post
Over a period of time, I have collected hundreds of ebooks and they are lying there on my hard drive.
Now I want use Calibre to configure *automatically* all those books so that I can manage my ebooks easily.

I have ebooks on my hard drive in various formats like .chm, .pdf and also some in audio format like .mp3.
ebooks name can include anything like combination of isbn, publisher, ebook name etc. and ebooks does not have proper format in their file names.

Now the problem is, I have to load each and every ebook manually into Calibre and then specify the isbn manually in Calibre and then ask Calibre to fetch other metadata for the ebook. If I have to do this for each and every book on my hard drive then it is very painful process and so I want avoid this process and want Calibre to automatically download all the metadata as soon as I load an ebook from my hard drive into Calibre. How can I do this ?

Also, how do configure mp3 files in Calibre so that managing/searching them is easy ?

Can you please clarify.
Welcome.

Simple answer... No!
Not an have the results in any useful condition

You sound like you have a "Mish-Mash" of stuff

Calibre does not have any way to know a MP3 book from a MP3 music.. Besides, Calibre does not manage MP3's at this time.

If all your files were named with exactly the same convention, import filters could be set.
If all the Books, folders existed in the same directory path, Calibre can work with that.
Let us face it. Downloaded Meta-Data is mush.
There seems to be no consistent values, even for books:
by the same Author,
from the same Publisher,
in the same Series


Careful, hand massaging of the data for your library is the only way it will be useful. Any other way, and you end up with something like you have already
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