Printed books already read

[philglen]

Hi all,
I am new to EBooks and Calibre and this is my first post.

I always have trouble remembering which printed books I have read and have been guilty of buying the same book twice ( admittedly several years apart)
Is there any easy way of adding a list of previously read books so you can check before buying new ones?
Cheers
Philglen

[Maggie-Me]

Originally Posted by philglen

Hi all,
I am new to EBooks and Calibre and this is my first post.

I always have trouble remembering which printed books I have read and have been guilty of buying the same book twice ( admittedly several years apart)
Is there any easy way of adding a list of previously read books so you can check before buying new ones?
Cheers
Philglen

Yes! Under add book, pick add empty book then edit metadata for title and author you want to enter, if you get the author and title correct you can add metadata and covers to get description and cover. Then add appropriate column to indicate read or to read, you can also do the same to add a wish list if you want.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by philglen

Hi all,
I am new to EBooks and Calibre and this is my first post.

I always have trouble remembering which printed books I have read and have been guilty of buying the same book twice ( admittedly several years apart)
Is there any easy way of adding a list of previously read books so you can check before buying new ones?
Cheers
Philglen

in addition to MaggieMe

a 2 stage operation
in Preferences: Behavior
there is a box "Tags to add" We have to do this way as this is the only field we can control this way). type in a Unique-unused Tag name eg 17new

Now use Add from ISBN section of Add books (whips out trusty barcode scanner, copies an pasts the list of ISBN's from a spreadsheet or doc)

Now use the Tag Browser or search bar to Find "17new" Tags
Select All
Bulk edit Meta-data and have it mark your Custom user 'read' field

Apply
Now set Tags to Remove: to "17new"
OK (we just got rid of the temporary marker tags)

Go back and remove the Tags to add in preferences(or it will happen for any book added in the future).

Developers: would it be easy to have a Add tag: that is 1) part of the Add ISBN dialog 2)the Value (remembered) only applies when using Add ISBN?

[kovidgoyal]

feel free to open a ticket requesting the feature.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

feel free to open a ticket requesting the feature.

#8436

Thanks

[philglen]

Originally Posted by Maggie-Me

Yes! Under add book, pick add empty book then edit metadata for title and author you want to enter, if you get the author and title correct you can add metadata and covers to get description and cover. Then add appropriate column to indicate read or to read, you can also do the same to add a wish list if you want.

Thanks Maggie-Me.
It worked a treat.

[Maggie-Me]

Originally Posted by philglen

Thanks Maggie-Me.
It worked a treat.

glad to hear it