Auto-adding content? and Thanks....

ApK · 02-27-2010, 10:17 AM

Hello,

We are about to get a Kindle and in the research process, discovered Calibre and these forums.

Thanks to those responsible for both! These forums have been a world of help, and Calibre seems like it will be a great management tool for us.

One question I couldn't seem to find an answer to...is there any way to automatically add content to Calibre, so that when we, say, buy a book from Amazon and download it to our pc, it automatically gets added to the Calibre library?
Can Calibre perhaps monitor a folder location for new files?

If not, can you please consider this a feature request?

Oh, look, an appropriate smiley:

ApK

Manichean · 02-27-2010, 10:24 AM

To my knowledge, you can't auto-add books. As for feature requests, I believe Kovid prefers to get those via the bugtracker system on the Calibre website.

kovidgoyal · 02-27-2010, 11:45 AM

Implementing folder watching on all the platforms calibre supports is a major pain, which is why this feature doesn't exist.

ApK · 02-27-2010, 07:57 PM

Thanks Kovid, and thanks again for Calibre.
I'll have to take a deeper look at the docs. If there is a command-line way to add files, then perhaps I'll write my own external watcher. Or I could use this as an excuse to learn Python....

ApK

kovidgoyal · 02-27-2010, 09:09 PM

The calibredb command lets you add files.

02-27-2010, 10:17 AM	#1
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,316 Karma: 67862884 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	Auto-adding content? and Thanks.... Hello, We are about to get a Kindle and in the research process, discovered Calibre and these forums. Thanks to those responsible for both! These forums have been a world of help, and Calibre seems like it will be a great management tool for us. One question I couldn't seem to find an answer to...is there any way to automatically add content to Calibre, so that when we, say, buy a book from Amazon and download it to our pc, it automatically gets added to the Calibre library? Can Calibre perhaps monitor a folder location for new files? If not, can you please consider this a feature request? Oh, look, an appropriate smiley: ApK

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02-27-2010, 10:24 AM	#2
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	To my knowledge, you can't auto-add books. As for feature requests, I believe Kovid prefers to get those via the bugtracker system on the Calibre website.

02-27-2010, 11:45 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Implementing folder watching on all the platforms calibre supports is a major pain, which is why this feature doesn't exist.

02-27-2010, 07:57 PM	#4
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,316 Karma: 67862884 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	Thanks Kovid, and thanks again for Calibre. I'll have to take a deeper look at the docs. If there is a command-line way to add files, then perhaps I'll write my own external watcher. Or I could use this as an excuse to learn Python.... ApK

02-27-2010, 09:09 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The calibredb command lets you add files.

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