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Old 08-13-2015, 01:39 AM   #1
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Moving books between libraries
I have two libraries and wish to move books between them. How can I do this please?
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Old 08-13-2015, 01:48 AM   #2
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I have two libraries and wish to move books between them. How can I do this please?
@phoban - use the Copy to Library feature - it should be in the book list right click menu, there's also a button you can add to your toolbar if you prefer.

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Highlight the books you want to move, right click on them and use the Copy to library submenu.
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Answered - thanks
Thank you both. That is exactly the function I need but had been unable to find. Thanks, Peter
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Please mind that the move assumes that both libraries have the same format (columns).
When the libraries differ due to added user columns, the info from the source library gets lost when the target library does not have that same column defined and vice versa.
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Old 08-13-2015, 08:48 AM   #6
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Could you please clarify what Metadata CTL uses.

Workflow:
Add book to "Intake" Library
I cleanse metadata, cover
Copy To Library
It seems the destination metadata is now a mix of the books original, and Newly added (fill fields that were blank)

Is what I am seeing a side effect of the tweaks:

# Control how tags are applied when copying books to another library

add_new_book_tags_when_importing_books = True
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Old 08-13-2015, 09:58 AM   #7
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CTL is the same as an add, except that instead of reading metadata from the ebook file, the metadata that is in the database is used instead.
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Please mind that the move assumes that both libraries have the same format (columns).
When the libraries differ due to added user columns, the info from the source library gets lost when the target library does not have that same column defined and vice versa.
@DrChiper - I get an offer to add the missing columns to the target library. Attachment shows a sample from my test machine.

See New feature: copy books between libraries with all custom metadata Looks like its been there for a while.

I have columns in my intake library that are not in my destination libraries so I see the feature every day.

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Looks like its been there for a while.
Ah, I missed that
I did setup the principal layout of my libraries somewhere between 2010 and 2012, and I am still happy as a kid as it still works for me and so I never actually bothered to add any new columns. Otherwise I surely would have encountered that functional addition of 2013.

Oh well, thanks for the correction
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Ah, I missed that
I did setup the principal layout of my libraries somewhere between 2010 and 2012, and I am still happy as a kid as it still works for me and so I never actually bothered to add any new columns. Otherwise I surely would have encountered that functional addition of 2013.

Oh well, thanks for the correction
Its hard to keep up with a fast moving target. I stumbled on something the other day that made me wonder why I hadn't seen it before, now I cant recall what it was

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Forgetting is the privilege of the matured old and wise people to be able to forget all those uninteresting issues which are clogging up one's mind ...

Somehow I seem to happily forget always more and more, so I figure I must become now mature, old and wise at last
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Forgetting is the privilege of the matured old and wise people to be able to forget all those uninteresting issues which are clogging up one's mind ...

Somehow I seem to happily forget always more and more, so I figure I must become now mature, old and wise at last
Good luck with that...
I just got OLD (with less hair)
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