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averyml · 05-19-2009, 12:31 PM

In the dark days before Calibre, I used Tellico to manage my ebook collection. Tellico is great for some things, but it wasn't really meant to be an ebook manager, and I would like to convert my massive epub collection over to Calibre. The problem is that I have spent many hours carefully organizing my collection, and the thought of redoing everything in Calibre is a rather daunting task. I have exported my Tellico collection as an XML file, and it has occurred to me that I might be able to use some kind of bash script together with epub-meta to write the Book title, author, and description to the actual file, which Calibre can then read. The problem is I know little about bash scripting, even less about xml, and I'm not sure if there's something else I would need to tie them all together. Does anyone by chance know of a script out there already capable of doing this, or something similar? If not, is there at least someone who wouldn't mind giving me a general idea of where to start?

05-19-2009, 12:31 PM	#1
averyml Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: N800	Scripting with epub-meta In the dark days before Calibre, I used Tellico to manage my ebook collection. Tellico is great for some things, but it wasn't really meant to be an ebook manager, and I would like to convert my massive epub collection over to Calibre. The problem is that I have spent many hours carefully organizing my collection, and the thought of redoing everything in Calibre is a rather daunting task. I have exported my Tellico collection as an XML file, and it has occurred to me that I might be able to use some kind of bash script together with epub-meta to write the Book title, author, and description to the actual file, which Calibre can then read. The problem is I know little about bash scripting, even less about xml, and I'm not sure if there's something else I would need to tie them all together. Does anyone by chance know of a script out there already capable of doing this, or something similar? If not, is there at least someone who wouldn't mind giving me a general idea of where to start?