Custom column - 3 separate IDs

lhavelund · 02-26-2017, 09:14 AM

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make the most of Calibre by injecting the ASIN into each AZW3 file I have, in order to allow me to make use of Goodreads integration etc. in the Kindle app on my Fire HD 6.

Though my library is relatively small, manually running through each file's meta data to check the presence (and content) of amazon, asin and mobi-asin tags in the identifiers list, I'm hoping to put this into a custom column to view at a glance, effectively searching for all three tags. If more than one tag exists, enumerate them with the spacer ",".

So for example, if a file contains the following in IDs:

Code:

isbn:foo, amazon:bar, google:baz

The column would output 'bar'. If the IDs field looks as follows:

Code:

isbn:foo, amazon:bar, google:baz, mobi-asin:xyzzy

The field would output 'bar,xyzzy'.

I hope this makes sense. Any support is appreciated.

kovidgoyal · 02-26-2017, 02:52 PM

Why not just use a search? Expand the Identifiers entry in the Tag Browser, Hold down Ctrl and click on the amazon, mobi-asin and asin items. That will restrict your list of books to books having any one of them. If you want to change to all of them replace the or in the generated search expression by and

02-26-2017, 09:14 AM	#1
lhavelund Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2017 Device: Kindle Fire HD 6	Custom column - 3 separate IDs Hi everyone, I'm trying to make the most of Calibre by injecting the ASIN into each AZW3 file I have, in order to allow me to make use of Goodreads integration etc. in the Kindle app on my Fire HD 6. Though my library is relatively small, manually running through each file's meta data to check the presence (and content) of amazon, asin and mobi-asin tags in the identifiers list, I'm hoping to put this into a custom column to view at a glance, effectively searching for all three tags. If more than one tag exists, enumerate them with the spacer ",". So for example, if a file contains the following in IDs: Code: isbn:foo, amazon:bar, google:baz The column would output 'bar'. If the IDs field looks as follows: Code: isbn:foo, amazon:bar, google:baz, mobi-asin:xyzzy The field would output 'bar,xyzzy'. I hope this makes sense. Any support is appreciated.

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02-26-2017, 02:52 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,860 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Why not just use a search? Expand the Identifiers entry in the Tag Browser, Hold down Ctrl and click on the amazon, mobi-asin and asin items. That will restrict your list of books to books having any one of them. If you want to change to all of them replace the or in the generated search expression by and

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