[eschwartz]

Yay, the server beta is finally released! Now I can stop promising people that "it's supposed to be coming soon, your long-awaited bookmarks/annotations paradise is nigh".

Originally Posted by latepaul

At home I've got a script I use to add books and populate custom columns with initial values. It uses calibredb a lot - so I'll try that when I get back.

It would probably be a lot more efficient to write it in python using `calibre-debug` to run it. You can use the database API.

Example snippet to initialize your library so you can modify it via the "cache" object:

#!/usr/bin/calibre-debug

def init_cache(library_path=None):
    if library_path:
        from calibre.utils.filename import import expanduser
        library_path = expanduser(library_path)
    else:
        from calibre.utils.config import prefs
        library_path = prefs['library_path']
    from calibre.db.backend import DB
    from calibre.db.cache import Cache
    backend = DB(library_path)
    cache = Cache(backend)
    cache.init()
    return cache

cache = init_cache()