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jdege · 05-15-2011, 11:12 AM

I have a new Color Nook, and a new installation of Caliber (on my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop), and I'm beginning to get my feet wet.

I had a couple directories full of PDFs of back-issues of some technical journals I read, and I did an "Add Books from Directories", for the first time. The import went fine, but the PDFs showed up without meaningful metadata.

I was able to identify the journals and set the metadata appropriately, but I have only about 100 books in Calibre - when that becomes thousands, searching through them all will become tedious.

Thinking about the problem, it seems to me that the obvious solution would be to specify metadata that should be applied to the books being imported, as they are being imported, in advance of the import.

Does anyone think this would be a useful feature? Or does it already exist, and I just missed it?

05-15-2011, 11:12 AM	#1
jdege Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2011 Device: Samsung Tablet	Metadata during directory add? I have a new Color Nook, and a new installation of Caliber (on my Ubuntu 10.04 desktop), and I'm beginning to get my feet wet. I had a couple directories full of PDFs of back-issues of some technical journals I read, and I did an "Add Books from Directories", for the first time. The import went fine, but the PDFs showed up without meaningful metadata. I was able to identify the journals and set the metadata appropriately, but I have only about 100 books in Calibre - when that becomes thousands, searching through them all will become tedious. Thinking about the problem, it seems to me that the obvious solution would be to specify metadata that should be applied to the books being imported, as they are being imported, in advance of the import. Does anyone think this would be a useful feature? Or does it already exist, and I just missed it?