add - book from Viewer ....

icq70610 · 09-08-2020, 01:53 PM

Dear friends of Calibre,

thanks to Covid - i had lots of time for reading, and there is one thing that I would like to ask, from a usability perspective.

I read quite a lot of books that i preview inside the viewer before decide to add them into my libraries, saying this I use the ebook-viewer from calibre for this with direct file association.

Point is that if I preview the file and did a diagonal read and i want to decide to add, I have to go back to ~/Download folder to add that specific file or use Calibre.

So long story short: can we add a button in the reader / Menu point

[ Add current book to calibre ]

to prevent the mentioned double searching ?

\Pete

kovidgoyal · 09-09-2020, 12:17 AM

If you use the standalone viewer it is completely independent from main calibre so cannot really add books to the library. Instead I suggest you simply add the books you want to preview to calibre, preview them and then delete if you dont want to keep them.

BetterRed · 09-09-2020, 02:52 AM

If you don't want to clutter your Normal library add the books to a Preview library.

Then, if after previewing a book you decide its a 'keeper', move it to the Normal library using the Copy (delete after copy) option, otherwise delete it.

BR

09-08-2020, 01:53 PM	#1
icq70610 Enthusiast Posts: 49 Karma: 510 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: PSR505	add - book from Viewer .... Dear friends of Calibre, thanks to Covid - i had lots of time for reading, and there is one thing that I would like to ask, from a usability perspective. I read quite a lot of books that i preview inside the viewer before decide to add them into my libraries, saying this I use the ebook-viewer from calibre for this with direct file association. Point is that if I preview the file and did a diagonal read and i want to decide to add, I have to go back to ~/Download folder to add that specific file or use Calibre. So long story short: can we add a button in the reader / Menu point [ Add current book to calibre ] to prevent the mentioned double searching ? \Pete

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09-09-2020, 12:17 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	If you use the standalone viewer it is completely independent from main calibre so cannot really add books to the library. Instead I suggest you simply add the books you want to preview to calibre, preview them and then delete if you dont want to keep them.

09-09-2020, 02:52 AM	#3
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,575 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	If you don't want to clutter your Normal library add the books to a Preview library. Then, if after previewing a book you decide its a 'keeper', move it to the Normal library using the Copy (delete after copy) option, otherwise delete it. BR

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