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tilleydog · 09-05-2010, 12:12 AM

The main reason is that you can edit at the Main Gui page instead of opening each book entry up to add the ISBN. Currently I have a couple of thousand PDF files imported for which I have the ISBN numbers in an excel spreadsheet. I can sort the files in Calibre by their series type and would be able to add the isbn much quicker than opening each record. Its still time consuming but it goes faster than opening each record. I tried to update the metadata.db using sql queries but calibre wouldn't read it afterwords. It was a good thing I made a copy before starting.

09-05-2010, 12:12 AM	#6
tilleydog Member Posts: 14 Karma: 50 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Android phone	re: Displaying ISBN column in the main GUI The main reason is that you can edit at the Main Gui page instead of opening each book entry up to add the ISBN. Currently I have a couple of thousand PDF files imported for which I have the ISBN numbers in an excel spreadsheet. I can sort the files in Calibre by their series type and would be able to add the isbn much quicker than opening each record. Its still time consuming but it goes faster than opening each record. I tried to update the metadata.db using sql queries but calibre wouldn't read it afterwords. It was a good thing I made a copy before starting.