Filtering Books in Library That Came From Amazon?

htrej · 08-29-2016, 05:13 AM

Is there a way to filter out books that came particularly from Amazon. That is, specifically the books I bought on amazon and imported. I'm guessing a first step could be to filter out the possible formats like azw3, mobi, and azw4, etc...but, for me, much of my Calibre library contains converted azw3 or mobi books of some sort (i.e. non-retail). A lot of these converted books probably weren't converted by Calibre either. In addition, there are other miscellaneous book formats that could be mixed in.

Is there any "tag" amazon puts on books like the Adobe meta tag? I know the Quality Check plugin works well for filtering out retail EPUBs, but this only works for EPUBs (not even MOBIs, I think?)... but I was wondering if this kind of "quality checking" could be done for Amazon books.

kovidgoyal · 08-29-2016, 05:15 AM

Amazon books typically have a mobi-asin identifier. You can filter on that.

HarryT · 08-29-2016, 05:15 AM

You could perhaps filter on books which have the Amazon ASIN field filled in?

htrej · 08-29-2016, 05:48 AM

Quick question though:

If I in the past downloaded metadata for all of my books, would that affect the identifiers you guys are suggesting? I forgot to mention this in my original post. Does metadata search download those identifiers even if the book isn't from amazon?

kovidgoyal · 08-29-2016, 06:04 AM

No metadata download creates amazon: identifiers not mobi-asin: identifiers

theducks · 08-29-2016, 11:59 AM

I use a tag-like field for personal auxiliary stuff that does not get included in the jacket (suppressed); One of these is Source store: Amazon USA, Webscriptions [yes, that is the old name for Baen e-book], Diesel...
Other folk track things like Cost: US$0.99
Learn to be consistent if you can't use a column with a fixed set of values to keep your data really usable

08-29-2016, 05:13 AM	#1
htrej Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2016 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Keyboard	Filtering Books in Library That Came From Amazon? Is there a way to filter out books that came particularly from Amazon. That is, specifically the books I bought on amazon and imported. I'm guessing a first step could be to filter out the possible formats like azw3, mobi, and azw4, etc...but, for me, much of my Calibre library contains converted azw3 or mobi books of some sort (i.e. non-retail). A lot of these converted books probably weren't converted by Calibre either. In addition, there are other miscellaneous book formats that could be mixed in. Is there any "tag" amazon puts on books like the Adobe meta tag? I know the Quality Check plugin works well for filtering out retail EPUBs, but this only works for EPUBs (not even MOBIs, I think?)... but I was wondering if this kind of "quality checking" could be done for Amazon books.

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08-29-2016, 05:15 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,867 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Amazon books typically have a mobi-asin identifier. You can filter on that.

08-29-2016, 05:15 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	You could perhaps filter on books which have the Amazon ASIN field filled in?

08-29-2016, 05:48 AM	#4
htrej Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2016 Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Keyboard	Quick question though: If I in the past downloaded metadata for all of my books, would that affect the identifiers you guys are suggesting? I forgot to mention this in my original post. Does metadata search download those identifiers even if the book isn't from amazon?

08-29-2016, 06:04 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,867 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No metadata download creates amazon: identifiers not mobi-asin: identifiers

08-29-2016, 11:59 AM	#6
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,818 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I use a tag-like field for personal auxiliary stuff that does not get included in the jacket (suppressed); One of these is Source store: Amazon USA, Webscriptions [yes, that is the old name for Baen e-book], Diesel... Other folk track things like Cost: US$0.99 Learn to be consistent if you can't use a column with a fixed set of values to keep your data really usable

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