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Old 10-13-2019, 05:00 AM   #1
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Question Adding Books to Calibre via Windows 10 SendTo Menu?

Is it possible to add a shortcut to Calibre via Windows 10 SendTo Menu?
As I get books from various sources and some of them seem to end up on my Windows Desktop before I add them to Calibre.

Would be great if I could right click the SendTo Menu & have a Calibre Shortcut there.
To add them to Calibre quickly

But it has got to be a simple answer for me maybe
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Old 10-13-2019, 05:30 AM   #2
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What works for me is creating a shortcut to calibredb.exe, then adding add parameter. However, that doesn't work if Calibre is already running.
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What works for me is creating a shortcut to calibredb.exe, then adding add parameter. However, that doesn't work if Calibre is already running.
Thanks for replying But I don't know how to do that.
To add shortcuts to the SendTo folder before I have just dragged shortcuts from the desktop etc.
Can you make it simple for me
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Is it possible to add a shortcut to Calibre via Windows 10 SendTo Menu?
As I get books from various sources and some of them seem to end up on my Windows Desktop before I add them to Calibre.

Would be great if I could right click the SendTo Menu & have a Calibre Shortcut there.
To add them to Calibre quickly

But it has got to be a simple answer for me maybe
Works like a treat for me. I add all by books via Send to. Just copy the shortcut from the Start menu to the Send To folder.

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I renamed the shortcut to force it to stop of list.

Caveats, books will be added to 'current' library, I use an Intake library so I make sure it's current before I start adding. If calibre isn't running when I use "Send To _calibre" Windows will start it.

To open the Send to folder Windows key+R, then shell:sendto

To open the calibre start menu

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Oh, you can send multiple file in one Send To

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So I just add the shortcut to my send to folder?
That's what I was struggling to find lol Looked all through the calibre program folder.
Had been looking for something that said calibre exe

But trying that will give me time later to edit the books details.
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Wow tried your suggestion and it worked
Thanks so much

Have just done the same with my Kobo Ereader too
You are a star.

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SendTo is broken MS concept for people that never ever discovered files, copy & Paste or using more than a couple of applications.
I'd have shown my students, in the past, how to never use it.
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