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Old 02-25-2012, 12:17 AM   #1
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Talking Tag many books at once?

Still new, but trying to learn and understand Calibre.

I have imported a VERY LARGE library of ebooks, but the metadata was not well organized, so I'm manually updating the metadata.

I am trying to do this in chunks, but it's difficult to know what I've done and what I haven't done yet.

Right now I'm doing them by format. I have X in the ZIP format, etc....but that won't continue working because a few formats have waaaay too many books.

I'd like to select all the books I've done here so far and tag them as "done" or something similar so I can use the tag to track books I've done and not done.

Is there a way to select many books at once and assign a tag to all of them? I don't see how to do it.
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Old 02-25-2012, 01:47 AM   #2
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Control-A selects all
or Select 1st book ,hold Shift and scroll down to last and select last will select x books

I use a custom column to do this rather than tags as you can see it at a glance in the GUI.

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Old 02-25-2012, 02:03 AM   #3
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Control-A selects all
or Select 1st book ,hold Shift and scroll down to last and select last will select x books

I use a custom column to do this rather than tags as you can see it at a glance in the GUI.

Helen
Sorry if I was unclear. I know how to select many books at once. How do I tag them all once I select them?
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Old 02-25-2012, 02:06 AM   #4
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Nevermind...I think I found it now. "Edit Metadata in Bulk" from context menu.
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