prevent device transfer based on book tag?

GrandNeko40 · 05-04-2024, 09:43 PM

spent a couple minutes searching, but haven't found what i was looking for.

can i prevent calibre from transferring undesired books to my device, based on tags or other metadata?

for instance, i have a few epub copies of cookbooks i've purchased, but those just never look good on my kobo -- plus, they're hundreds of megabytes each. i'd like to make it so that any book i tag with "cookbook" or "recipe" or whatever, never gets copied to my devices.

sometimes i'll go a month or more between device library syncs, and i'll have bought 1-10 more books in that time. and sometimes i'll accidentally select a 900mb cookbook by mistake, and hit the "send to device" button. does calibre offer a feature to help me keep from doing this?

kovidgoyal · 05-04-2024, 10:07 PM

Not directly but you can always hide such books by clicking the tag twice in the tag browser on the left and only then do send to device operation.

05-04-2024, 09:43 PM	#1
GrandNeko40 Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2024 Device: Kobo Libra 2	prevent device transfer based on book tag? spent a couple minutes searching, but haven't found what i was looking for. can i prevent calibre from transferring undesired books to my device, based on tags or other metadata? for instance, i have a few epub copies of cookbooks i've purchased, but those just never look good on my kobo -- plus, they're hundreds of megabytes each. i'd like to make it so that any book i tag with "cookbook" or "recipe" or whatever, never gets copied to my devices. sometimes i'll go a month or more between device library syncs, and i'll have bought 1-10 more books in that time. and sometimes i'll accidentally select a 900mb cookbook by mistake, and hit the "send to device" button. does calibre offer a feature to help me keep from doing this?

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05-04-2024, 10:07 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,608 Karma: 28548974 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Not directly but you can always hide such books by clicking the tag twice in the tag browser on the left and only then do send to device operation.

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