Creating catalog without downloading books from amazon?

deb27 · Yesterday, 06:01 PM

I love the catalog feature of calibre. One place I can go to see the entire catalog of my books.
Unfortunately, the majority of my books are from Amazon and have DRM. And since I can no longer download and transfer by USB, I don't know how to get my books (or at least the title of the books) into Calibre.

So I'm not asking how to get the actual readable book into Calibre. I'm asking if there's a way to get the title/author into a blank book in Calibre such that I can download the associated metadata for the book and then generate a catalog.

At the moment, I have to manually create a blank book and fill in the title and author for every single book I want in the catalog which is painful. Is there any way I can get the info from the kindle into calibre via the windows PC interface?

Thanks in advance.

Sirtel · Today, 12:48 AM

I don't think you can get the metadata alone from the Windows app. You can get the books, though (that is, deDRM them) and then you'll get the metadata with them.

Katja_hbg · Today, 03:28 AM

did you try "add book" and use isbn or the amazon number?

Yesterday, 06:01 PM	#1
deb27 Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle 2	Creating catalog without downloading books from amazon? I love the catalog feature of calibre. One place I can go to see the entire catalog of my books. Unfortunately, the majority of my books are from Amazon and have DRM. And since I can no longer download and transfer by USB, I don't know how to get my books (or at least the title of the books) into Calibre. So I'm not asking how to get the actual readable book into Calibre. I'm asking if there's a way to get the title/author into a blank book in Calibre such that I can download the associated metadata for the book and then generate a catalog. At the moment, I have to manually create a blank book and fill in the title and author for every single book I want in the catalog which is painful. Is there any way I can get the info from the kindle into calibre via the windows PC interface? Thanks in advance.

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Today, 12:48 AM	#2
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 15,381 Karma: 248000001 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	I don't think you can get the metadata alone from the Windows app. You can get the books, though (that is, deDRM them) and then you'll get the metadata with them.

Today, 03:28 AM	#3
Katja_hbg Addict Posts: 210 Karma: 197760 Join Date: Oct 2015 Device: Kobo Glo HD (landscape), Kobo Aura One	did you try "add book" and use isbn or the amazon number?

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