Auto-updating books

memilanuk · 12-24-2015, 06:50 PM

Say I have a series of folders of technical books that the publishers occasionally release updated versions (errata, new edition, etc.) for, and those folders get the updated files pushed to them (my Dropbox account). My (very limited) understanding of Calibre is that it looks at those folders one time, does an import and then maintains its own library from there on. How do I get it to look at / monitor those folders and pull updated versions as needed, without having to re-add everything and possibly end up with duplicates?

Thanks,

Monte

eschwartz · 12-26-2015, 10:18 PM

You cannot.

calibre doesn't assume it will be receiving regularly updated books!

You can add them as new books and merge the duplicates.

memilanuk · 12-27-2015, 05:16 PM

Well, nuts. With all the other bells n whistles it has, I kind of assumed it'd do this as well. Oh, well. Good to know I wasn't missing something too obvious

Thanks,

Monte

theducks · 12-27-2015, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by memilanuk

Well, nuts. With all the other bells n whistles it has, I kind of assumed it'd do this as well. Oh, well. Good to know I wasn't missing something too obvious

Thanks,

Monte

If you manually download the updated book, you can drag and drop IT onto the existing books details (pane) or into the formats section of the MDE.

This leaves all the metadata intact

12-24-2015, 06:50 PM	#1
memilanuk Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Wenatchee, WA USA Device: Calibre	Auto-updating books Say I have a series of folders of technical books that the publishers occasionally release updated versions (errata, new edition, etc.) for, and those folders get the updated files pushed to them (my Dropbox account). My (very limited) understanding of Calibre is that it looks at those folders one time, does an import and then maintains its own library from there on. How do I get it to look at / monitor those folders and pull updated versions as needed, without having to re-add everything and possibly end up with duplicates? Thanks, Monte

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12-26-2015, 10:18 PM	#2
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	You cannot. calibre doesn't assume it will be receiving regularly updated books! You can add them as new books and merge the duplicates.

12-27-2015, 05:16 PM	#3
memilanuk Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Wenatchee, WA USA Device: Calibre	Well, nuts. With all the other bells n whistles it has, I kind of assumed it'd do this as well. Oh, well. Good to know I wasn't missing something too obvious Thanks, Monte

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