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Old 07-21-2020, 09:16 PM   #1
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I'll tell you what : I get sick and tired of this tool that is basically accessible to VERY computer-literate persons.
What I want to do : create catalogues WITHOUT the "published date", that happens NEVER to be the correct published date in the first place and i should know, because books I certainly do know far better than computers).
So I look everywhere, it takes me a full 3 hours, I reach the point where I have dug out the "catalogue" in Windows, transferred it in Calibre itself, and then I open the XHTML file in order to delete "published date", and HOW THE HELL do you ever even MANAGE to delete anything out of an XHTML file ?
Any explanation you find online takes you to half a dozen more explanations, each one in semi-coded language that one cannot grasp if one hasn't been into developing software.
Mr. Goyal has done a magnificent job with Calibre, but I think that, after over 10 years, it might be time for someone to adapt it for more "basic" users and do some (to real computer lovers certainly horrible, but still) work that makes it the equivalent of a WYSIWYG software. Right now, past a certain comparatively basic point, it is a tool for people used to deal with computer machinery on a daily basis, NOT fit for anyone basically interested in e-books and how to best handle them, and I resent that very sorely.
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Old 07-21-2020, 09:52 PM   #2
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Why not create the catalogue in a different format such as CSV, open it in a spreadsheet like Excel and delete the unwanted columns
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Old 07-21-2020, 10:10 PM   #3
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CSV format allows you to configure which fields are INCLUDED.
Look at the other TAB when CSV format is selected as the output format.
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Old 07-21-2020, 10:11 PM   #4
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What catalogue are you blathering about? If you are going on about the one that is generated from the Convert Books menu item in calibre, for XML and CSV you can choose what items to include in the file. For EPub, Mobi and AZW3, the published date will be added as ' (1234)'. If you choose EPub or AZW3, open the catalog in calibre's editor and use a regex search for ' \([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]\)' with a replace of nothing and search in all files. There are simpler ways to write this regex but this is about as basic as it gets.

\( is an escaped (
[0-9] match any digit from 0 to 9 (repeated 4 times)
\) is an escaped )

Leave out the two ' when entering the regex, they are just there to make the space in front of the \( easier to notice.

To open the calibre editor either highlight the catalog and hit T on your keyboard or use the right click menu and select Edit book. Yes, calibre includes a editor which, gee, gosh, golly, will edit xhtml files.
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Old 07-22-2020, 12:17 AM   #5
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What I want to do : create catalogues WITHOUT the "published date", that happens NEVER to be the correct published date in the first place and i should know, because books I certainly do know far better than computers).
I'm curious, if this is a such a big problem, why aren't you fixing the published date? If you know what it is, then you can enter it. If you are using the metadata download to get it, then you can choose the edition with the correct date. Or, you can completely turn off getting the published date. Then it will be empty in calibre, and will probably not be shown in the catalogue.
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XHTML catalogs...aren't even an option?
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XHTML catalogs...aren't even an option?
I thought he was creating an EPub catalog but looking at the EPub and AZW3 catalog files, the internal files are html not xhtml. The other oddity is that calibre adds the EPub, AZW3 and mobi catalogs to the library, The BIB, CSV and XML catalogs are stored outside the library since calibre does not consider them as a ebook format.

I'm starting to suspect our OP is the Rincewind of computer literacy.
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Old 07-24-2020, 07:41 AM   #8
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Hello. May sound like a good idea, thanks, but the fact is I want to have the catalogue in EPub (and hence Mobi) to put in my devices, because one of Kindle's limitations is that the devices will only be able to list 15000 items (including collections), so if you happen to have more than 15000 you just can't remember that precisely (although they are stored in Amazon Cloud without any hassle from Amazon) and download them if you want them (if they're not among the 15000 that get listed, that is).
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What catalogue are you blathering about? If you are going on about the one that is generated from the Convert Books menu item in calibre, for XML and CSV you can choose what items to include in the file.]
No, you cannot choose whether publication date can be left out, the option just isn't there, sorry.
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I'm curious, if this is a such a big problem, why aren't you fixing the published date? If you know what it is, then you can enter it. If you are using the metadata download to get it, then you can choose the edition with the correct date. Or, you can completely turn off getting the published date. Then it will be empty in calibre, and will probably not be shown in the catalogue.
CORRECTION to my previous post : I did manage to delete all "published dates" at once with the "edit metadata" tool, so that solves my issue and I will be able to get "clean" catalogues" (in EPub / Mobi) with no incorrect publication dates.
Thanks to all who mattered to post a reply, and sorry if I sounded like "the Rincewind of computer literacy". (I happen to teach how to read and write to illiterate immigrants, and it does not occur to me I am doing a bad job not starting with Victor Hugo and Jane Austen...)
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No, you cannot choose whether publication date can be left out, the option just isn't there, sorry.
Why not just ignore it?
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What catalogue are you blathering about? If you are going on about the one that is generated from the Convert Books menu item in calibre, for XML and CSV you can choose what items to include in the file.
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No, you cannot choose whether publication date can be left out, the option just isn't there, sorry.
Weird, I just opened the catalog generation widget, selected CSV and checked the CSV/XML options. Published seems to be there. See attached image.
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Weird, I just opened the catalog generation widget, selected CSV and checked the CSV/XML options. Published seems to be there. See attached image.
You are right, but it's an EPub catalog I create, so as to download it to my device (once converted to Mobi) and have a complete list of my e-books at hand (and possibly download whichever book I want straight from the e-reader using its browser, limted though it is) without having a computer at hand (as I mentioned, they are all on Amazon Cloud in addition to Calibre, but the Kindle devices will only let 15000 titles show on the device - including collections, which leaves one with around 14000 book titles in my case, while I have 18000).
Thanks anyway, I managed to work around the issue with the help of participants in this forum (by deleting all "published date" information in metadata).
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