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Originally Posted by itimpi
Would this meet your requirements?
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It might, I'll have to delve deeper into Calibre. Since I have over 1000 print books, is there any way to bulk import ISBNs? I can easily get some or all of the metadata maintained by Gurulib exported into Excel, CSV, or XML formats.
Okay, since my original answer here I have delved into the calibre user manual more deeply, played around with the calibre "add empty book" facility, the "edit metadata in bulk", calibredb.exe, etc.
One problem that I found right off the bat is that the calibre user manual predates when the add empty book capability was added. I can only find a few posts (after googling around) related to the add empty book facility -- and they weren't particularly helpful in describing how one might add empty books in bulk. Also I could find no documentation at all as to how one might use calibredb to add empty books.
@itimpi you said in one of your answers to a post elsewhere, that you no longer had to create dummy files, it would seem to me that if one has say 1000 empty books to create, and one does not want to manually enter metadata for all of these, then one approach would be to create 1000 dummy files whose filenames create a unique metadata signature. Ideally, if this is the approach I must take, I would like the files to have the ISBN number as their file name, and create a script using calibredb that would somehow add the 1000 files as empty books --each with their appropriate ISBN number. Unfortunately from the limited documentation that I have been able to find, I cannot find any easy way to link a file name with the ISBN metadata field.
Any help that anyone could give would be appreciated. By the way I'm not adverse to writing a script to accomplish this, I just need some pointers on how to get started. An example or two of a command line that adds an empty book and gives it an ISBN metadata entry would be really helpful here.
Anyhow, thanks for your prompt response