How to replace date with the published date

MegAnne · 02-24-2019, 04:34 PM

I'm feeling quite uncomfortable posting this question since probably there's an obvious answer that I'm not able to find.
Long story short, I wanted to replace the date on all my ebooks with the published date but couldn't figure out how to do that.

theducks · 02-24-2019, 05:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegAnne

I'm feeling quite uncomfortable posting this question since probably there's an obvious answer that I'm not able to find.
Long story short, I wanted to replace the date on all my ebooks with the published date but couldn't figure out how to do that.

First of all:
Date is the date that the record (book) was added to Calibre
Published (lookup:pubdate) is the date published

:bulb2: right-click any column header: Show: published

MegAnne · 02-24-2019, 07:05 PM

What happened is that I imported a bunch of old ebooks to Calibre and, obviously, they show today as the (added to Calibre) date. But you're perfectly right, I did hide a date column and I'm using pubdate to sort. Thank you.

Tarana · 02-24-2019, 07:07 PM

Scroll your Calibre page all the way over. Published date will be the last column. Select it and drag it over to where Calibre entry date is and then drag Calibry entry date to the end.

theducks · 02-24-2019, 07:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tarana

Scroll your Calibre page all the way over. Published date will be the last column. Select it and drag it over to where Calibre entry date is and then drag Calibry entry date to the end.

You can also do this (quicker?) Preference: Adding Columns
There, you can reorder, Add/remove ticks

BetterRed · 02-24-2019, 08:01 PM

FWIW: I've never needed to know when I added a book, so I use Date as my date read column, I clear it when I add a book.

In Preferences->Add you own columns, Date has 'timestamp' as the lookup name. But when I hover the mouse over the book list Date header it has 'date' - how come

BR

MegAnne · 02-25-2019, 01:47 AM

Thank you everybody.

02-24-2019, 04:34 PM	#1
MegAnne Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Atlantic Beach, FL Device: Amazon Fire HD 10	How to replace date with the published date I'm feeling quite uncomfortable posting this question since probably there's an obvious answer that I'm not able to find. Long story short, I wanted to replace the date on all my ebooks with the published date but couldn't figure out how to do that.

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02-24-2019, 07:05 PM	#3
MegAnne Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Atlantic Beach, FL Device: Amazon Fire HD 10	What happened is that I imported a bunch of old ebooks to Calibre and, obviously, they show today as the (added to Calibre) date. But you're perfectly right, I did hide a date column and I'm using pubdate to sort. Thank you.

02-24-2019, 07:07 PM	#4
Tarana Wizard Posts: 4,038 Karma: 38840460 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Minneapolis Device: PWSE, Voyage, K3, HDX, KBasic 7 & 8, Nook Glo3, Echos, Nanos	Scroll your Calibre page all the way over. Published date will be the last column. Select it and drag it over to where Calibre entry date is and then drag Calibry entry date to the end.

02-24-2019, 08:01 PM	#6
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,725 Karma: 29711016 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	FWIW: I've never needed to know when I added a book, so I use Date as my date read column, I clear it when I add a book. In Preferences->Add you own columns, Date has 'timestamp' as the lookup name. But when I hover the mouse over the book list Date header it has 'date' - how come BR

02-25-2019, 01:47 AM	#7
MegAnne Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Atlantic Beach, FL Device: Amazon Fire HD 10	Thank you everybody.

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