Importing question

BookJunkieLI · 06-14-2012, 12:13 PM

Is it possible to import the title of a book without actually importing the book?

Basically I have a huge mess of digital comic books that I want to organize. I've worked with ComicRack a bit but I feel that Calibre is light years ahead as far as actual organization and being able to properly find and remove duplicates; of which I know I have a lot.

I'd like to be able drop a copy of the library onto a USB stick or sd card so I can work on the sorting whenever I get the chance whether it be on my laptop or at work or home. Being as the amount of comics I currently have is just shy of 1TB... Yeah, not gonna fit on a USB or SD card with the actual books attached. I know that I can import them all into Calibre and then delete the attached formats but I was thinking it might go faster if the attached books just weren't imported in the first place.

Yack · 06-18-2012, 02:06 PM

It's a breeze to import the whole metadata if you can get the ISBN of the books: select "Add books", then "Add from ISBN".

06-14-2012, 12:13 PM	#1
BookJunkieLI Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 572984 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle 4, Nook Gl4, Nook STR, REB 1100, Ebookwise 1500,	Importing question Is it possible to import the title of a book without actually importing the book? Basically I have a huge mess of digital comic books that I want to organize. I've worked with ComicRack a bit but I feel that Calibre is light years ahead as far as actual organization and being able to properly find and remove duplicates; of which I know I have a lot. I'd like to be able drop a copy of the library onto a USB stick or sd card so I can work on the sorting whenever I get the chance whether it be on my laptop or at work or home. Being as the amount of comics I currently have is just shy of 1TB... Yeah, not gonna fit on a USB or SD card with the actual books attached. I know that I can import them all into Calibre and then delete the attached formats but I was thinking it might go faster if the attached books just weren't imported in the first place.

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06-18-2012, 02:06 PM	#2
Yack Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Location: Paris, France Device: KT/Kobo/iPad/iPhone	It's a breeze to import the whole metadata if you can get the ISBN of the books: select "Add books", then "Add from ISBN".