Printing Lists of Books

[rjupiter]

hi -

is there a way to export a text based list of my books that I can print off?

[kovidgoyal]

Right click the convert button and choose create catalog

[rjupiter]

okay, but there is no option for just plain text it offers, CSV, XML, BIB etc... none of which I open in say Word and print.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by rjupiter

okay, but there is no option for just plain text it offers, CSV, XML, BIB etc... none of which I open in say Word and print.

CSV opens in Excel (Open Office Calc and others) if you want formatted (you do )
CSV is easily printable as is, just more difficult to read as everything bunches

[rjupiter]

i don't have Excel

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by rjupiter

i don't have Excel

That's where the 'Open Office Calc and others' come in. Any spreadsheet worth its salt will handle CSV files.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by rjupiter

i don't have Excel

CSV is a plain text file separated by comas. Just rename it to catalog.csv.txt file and you can open it with any text editor or spreadsheet - including free ones.
When creating a catalog you can select what columns you want to export.

[eschwartz]

http://libreoffice.org -- the most widely regarded free MS Office alternative. Will open CSV . No need for Microsoft's overpriced junk.

[theducks]

He could use the CLI:

calibredb list >foo.txt

[BetterRed]

@rjupiter - no need to install/buy/download any software

Google docs will read a csv into its spreadsheet app, from there you can adjust column widths, layout the table, add up the file sizes, make pretty headings and such, IIRC you can save as HTML or print via a PDF print driver.

More than good enough if you have no need for a stand alone program like Excel or Calc; the fact you don't have one already, suggests you don't. And you don't waste disk space (can be important if you have a SSD System Drive) on very large and largely irrelevant software package.

And its one less vector for the bad guys to exploit.

BR

[rjupiter]

thanks for the suggestions everyone but I don't have a Google account and don't want one, so access Docs in not possible, guess i will just stick with hand writing the the list out, thanks anyways.

[cybmole]

well screen grab (alt+print screen) then paste into paint & print would be faster than handwriting!- and prettier

but it costs nothing to install open office & then use some of the above solutions via the open office version of excel

[BetterRed]

I just recalled that Nir Sofer has a tiny standalone program for Windows called CSVFileView - the name says it all, it's a 106KB download, no install needed.

Below is a sample of what a calibre csv catalogue looks like. Its just a viewer, not a replacement for Excel or Calc. Sort columns, reorder columns, you can save to HTML and make it pretty it in your favourite html editor.

Here 'tis ==>> CSVFileView - CSV/Tab-delimited file viewer and converter for Windows

@PeterT - I should have recalled this when LostCause was looking

BR

[kacir]

Originally Posted by cybmole

well screen grab (alt+print screen) then paste into paint & print would be faster than handwriting!- and prettier

but it costs nothing to install open office & then use some of the above solutions via the open office version of excel

I am pretty sure at this moment that rjupiter is either making fun of us, or is *very* severely technologically challenged.

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by kacir

I am pretty sure at this moment that rjupiter is either making fun of us, or is *very* severely technologically challenged.

He has word but not excel, a pc but not google, wants txt but rejects text+commas (aka csv)....
Very strange