How to 'publish' catalog?

tomsem · 11-26-2022, 09:06 PM

Is there some way to publish a list of everything in a given calibre library (or some subset of one), say, to an ePub file? I don't see such a feature or plugin for doing this, or even export to csv or something like that.

I think it should be relatively straightforward to export from sqlite db and do a mail merge (or, in theory, install ODBC driver for sqlite, and MS Word can use that), but wondered if I was missing something built-in.

Of course it would be more work to include thumbnails in the document, which would be desirable.

And the resultant document could be very large (my library has about 3500 titles).

Still, it seems like it would be a nice way to browse, apart from running calibre itself.

[Fun fact: this year's Pages 12.1 restored mail merge, missing since the 2013 release!]

ownedbycats · 11-26-2022, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by tomsem

Is there some way to publish a list of everything in a given calibre library (or some subset of one), say, to an ePub file? I don't see such a feature or plugin for doing this, or even export to csv or something like that.

Its built in. Add "Create catalog" to a menu or toolbar somewhere.

tomsem · 11-26-2022, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Its built in. Add "Create catalog" to a menu or toolbar somewhere.

Found it, thanks!

hobnail · 11-26-2022, 11:28 PM

Right click on the Convert books button. Lots of interesting things under those buttons when you right click.

11-26-2022, 09:06 PM	#1
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,939 Karma: 27060151 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	How to 'publish' catalog? Is there some way to publish a list of everything in a given calibre library (or some subset of one), say, to an ePub file? I don't see such a feature or plugin for doing this, or even export to csv or something like that. I think it should be relatively straightforward to export from sqlite db and do a mail merge (or, in theory, install ODBC driver for sqlite, and MS Word can use that), but wondered if I was missing something built-in. Of course it would be more work to include thumbnails in the document, which would be desirable. And the resultant document could be very large (my library has about 3500 titles). Still, it seems like it would be a nice way to browse, apart from running calibre itself. [Fun fact: this year's Pages 12.1 restored mail merge, missing since the 2013 release!]

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hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,587 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	Right click on the Convert books button. Lots of interesting things under those buttons when you right click.

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