Some suggestions for Calibre to help new users

[DNSB]

For me, I don't use genre, I don't use tags, etc. My library is pretty simple with the few columns I find useful. I admit that 99%+ of my library is basically, science fiction, fantasy, books related to cooking and my spouse's romance books so no real need for genre. Especially since all too often I've found series where some of the books were classed as science fiction and the other books in the series were classified as fantasy. Or the Vorkosigan series where not only were some books classified as science and others as fantasy, some of the books such as A Civil Campaign were classified as romance.

My pbook library was sorted by author and my book list was a simple text file with title & author. I pretty much treat my calibre library much the same.

I do know some people who spend more time adding, sorting & changing various metadata for their ebooks than they actually do reading them. I'd rather spend my time reading.

[Sirtel]

I decide for myself what genre and tags my books get. I don't care what they're officially classified as, and I delete all the tags that come with the book.

I use only a handful of broad genres and a couple of subgenres, though. I don't want to classify everything down to the tiniest details, as that would take far too much time with the amount of books I have.

[crnirg]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

There you go: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...1539b22d15d16f

I try modify with ChatGPT for delfi.rs site and now problem :
calibre, version 8.9.0 (win32, embedded-python: True)
Failed to download metadata: Failed: Download metadata for one book

Starting job: Download metadata for one book
Job: "Download metadata for one book" failed with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\metadata\bulk_download.py", line 250, in download
File "calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 251, in fork_job
File "calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 176, in run_job
File "calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 119, in communicate
calibre.utils.ipc.simple_worker.WorkerError: Worker failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\threaded_jobs.py", line 85, in start_work
File "calibre\gui2\metadata\bulk_download.py", line 255, in download
Exception: Failed to download metadata. Original traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 299, in main
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\worker.py", line 58, in wrapper
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\worker.py", line 100, in main
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\covers.py", line 174, in download_cover
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\covers.py", line 146, in run_download
File "calibre\ebooks\metadata\sources\base.py", line 291, in browser
File "calibre\__init__.py", line 334, in browser
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 48, in __init__
File "ssl.py", line 775, in create_default_context
File "ssl.py", line 596, in load_default_certs
File "ssl.py", line 588, in _load_windows_store_certs
ssl.SSLError: not enough data: cadata does not contain a certificate (_ssl.c:4046)


Called with args: ([32010], 'C:\\Users\\korisnik\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibr e-cqho_uzs\\hqjw9ynl_metadata_bulk.log', <calibre.db.legacy.LibraryDatabase object at 0x000001D82DF5AE50>, True, True, None) {'notifications': <queue.Queue object at 0x000001D83D531290>, 'abort': <threading.Event at 0x1d83d530cd0: unset>, 'log': <calibre.utils.logging.GUILog object at 0x000001D83C5B6850>}

Repair app not solve problem

[crnirg]

And when Edit Note for author I get :
calibre, version 8.9.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>SSLError</b>:not enough data: cadata does not contain a certificate (_ssl.c:4046)

calibre 8.9 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.11.12
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\comments_editor.py", line 630, in do_paste
File "calibre\gui2\comments_editor.py", line 635, in download_images
File "calibre\__init__.py", line 334, in browser
File "calibre\utils\browser.py", line 48, in __init__
File "ssl.py", line 775, in create_default_context
File "ssl.py", line 596, in load_default_certs
File "ssl.py", line 588, in _load_windows_store_certs
ssl.SSLError: not enough data: cadata does not contain a certificate (_ssl.c:4046)

[kovidgoyal]

You have corrupted SSL certificates on your machine. The OpenSSL library is failing to load the certificates from the Windows certificate store.