List of Books in Calibre Companion

VelvetElvis · 11-04-2014, 03:34 PM

I have about 50 books in Calibre Companion. I've been having problems with my tablet, and foresee yet another factory reset.

Is there any way to easily get a list of books I've loaded into CC? It would make life so much easier for those folks either restoring from factory specs, or those installing CC on a second device.

Thanks!

PeterT · 11-04-2014, 04:10 PM

What I would do is to have CC connect as a wireless device, and then use the Reading List plugin to create a custom list based on what is on that device.

Then it should be trivial to retransfer what is on that list back to the device.

chaley · 11-04-2014, 04:13 PM

The easiest way to do this is to connect as a wireless device to calibre, in calibre search for ondevice:true, then use bulk metadata edit to add a tag or something like that to each book to mark the book as being on the device. Then after the reset, again connect as a wireless device to calibre, select all books with the tag (or whatever) and send those books to CC. This method assumes that all the books in CC come from the same calibre library.

Another option that would work if your books are epubs would be to save the contents of CC's book folder somewhere (cloud, SD card, ???). After the reset, restore the books then connect as a wireless device to calibre. CC will scan the books and try to match them with the books in calibre's library.

With 50 books, another brute force approach would be to take screen captures of CC's grid view. Depending on the cover size and the device size, perhaps 1 to 3 screen captures would be enough.

VelvetElvis · 11-04-2014, 05:53 PM

Thank you, PeterT and chaley. That will make my life a little easier.

11-04-2014, 03:34 PM	#1
VelvetElvis Addict Posts: 259 Karma: 20028 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Canada Device: Fire HD8, Asus, Sony (T1, PRS-300), Kobo (Glo, Touch, Wireless)	List of Books in Calibre Companion I have about 50 books in Calibre Companion. I've been having problems with my tablet, and foresee yet another factory reset. Is there any way to easily get a list of books I've loaded into CC? It would make life so much easier for those folks either restoring from factory specs, or those installing CC on a second device. Thanks!

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11-04-2014, 04:10 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,505 Karma: 78910112 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	What I would do is to have CC connect as a wireless device, and then use the Reading List plugin to create a custom list based on what is on that device. Then it should be trivial to retransfer what is on that list back to the device.

11-04-2014, 04:13 PM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,443 Karma: 8012886 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	The easiest way to do this is to connect as a wireless device to calibre, in calibre search for ondevice:true, then use bulk metadata edit to add a tag or something like that to each book to mark the book as being on the device. Then after the reset, again connect as a wireless device to calibre, select all books with the tag (or whatever) and send those books to CC. This method assumes that all the books in CC come from the same calibre library. Another option that would work if your books are epubs would be to save the contents of CC's book folder somewhere (cloud, SD card, ???). After the reset, restore the books then connect as a wireless device to calibre. CC will scan the books and try to match them with the books in calibre's library. With 50 books, another brute force approach would be to take screen captures of CC's grid view. Depending on the cover size and the device size, perhaps 1 to 3 screen captures would be enough.

11-04-2014, 05:53 PM	#4
VelvetElvis Addict Posts: 259 Karma: 20028 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Canada Device: Fire HD8, Asus, Sony (T1, PRS-300), Kobo (Glo, Touch, Wireless)	Thank you, PeterT and chaley. That will make my life a little easier.

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