Clearing Book Grid with Keyboard shourtcut - possible?? - Page 2

DNSB · 05-09-2018, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris_Snow

How do you shift your titles from one library to another? (I only have one library so don't know how you would do this)

Select the books you want to copy, right click, Copy to library, select the destination library with copy or copy and delete.

I run the Find Duplicates plugin after checking title/author but before copying to the main library to cut down on the number of duplicate books without having to dig through the copy report.

theducks · 05-10-2018, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

Select the books you want to copy, right click, Copy to library, select the destination library with copy or copy and delete.

I run the Find Duplicates plugin after checking title/author but before copying to the main library to cut down on the number of duplicate books without having to dig through the copy report.

I use both procedures.

BetterRed · 05-10-2018, 05:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

I use both procedures.

Me too

BR

Chris_Snow · 05-11-2018, 02:40 AM

Just noticted there was a page 2 of this thread - doh!.

I can see the sense to doing it this way, but I think I would find two libraries harder to manage. Now I have a shortcut key to clear the spreadsheet makes it really easy. I also have a "BooksAdded1DayAgo" VL that I edit to make it longer if needed. That's what is so cool about calibre - lots of different ways of doing things.

BetterRed · 05-11-2018, 04:25 AM

@Chris_Snow - I started using an Intake library when I was doing the initial load of 30,000 PD documents. Initially I was adding a batch of documents into the target library which I figured I could 'sort out' in a day, somewhere between 50 and 200. I found that awkward, so I asked how other people handled the initial load. It was theducks who suggested using an Intake library - probably the best idea he ever gave me

Amongst other things I didn't want to pollute my target libraries with the various administrivia artefacts I use in 'sorting out' new books; such as an Intake Status column, dummy books to hold controlled vocabularies etc, and I wanted to use different View Manager settings in the Intake and target libraries. I also discovered I prefer working with the inter-library duplicates search of the Find Duplicates plugin than the within-library duplicate search.

Hopefully this post may be pertinent to future readers of the thread.

BR

theducks · 05-11-2018, 01:17 PM

You really don't MANAGE 2 Libraries.
Intake is just the place you 'unbox' new books and prep them for addition to the Library. AKA the backroom at your Local Library (Yes, I worked in my school library when I was younger). This was where the checkout pocket was attached, library name stamped in specified locations...

In Calibre, you need to clean the embedded metadata to conform to your style rules (Mine is Mixed case, reduced redundant tag variations, remove Author name from TAGS ...).
In the end, the book is 'shelved' in the uses Library (AKA front of house)

DNSB · 05-11-2018, 05:17 PM

I can't say much that hasn't already been said. The separate libraries make managing new books a lot easier for me. Much as BetterRed, I have information in Intake library view which are not needed for the main library and would only clutter the screen. I do like theduck's backroom and library metaphor.

This may not work for everyone but it saves me time and effort.

Chris_Snow · 05-11-2018, 06:55 PM

Wow...I can see others use their libraries so much differently than I do (a good thing). I deal with all additions to the library as single author imports (many times only one book at a time). This allows me to tweak all the stuff I want at that time (it'll never get done later). However, I do usually do all my final tweaks to the presentation of that book within calibre after I have read it - like correcting the myriad editing mistakes in the books (some are really bad - makes you think they never had a editor - and I'm talking mainstream books from mainstream publishers). I have a large PB library as well and compared to the ebook format, they are really well presented - it's like they don't care about putting effort into ebooks!

Thanks for the comments. Always helpful. I like the term intake library. I must admit though, I'm so used to doing it like I do that changing it would perhaps present difficulties.

05-11-2018, 04:25 AM	#20
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 20,565 Karma: 26954694 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Chris_Snow - I started using an Intake library when I was doing the initial load of 30,000 PD documents. Initially I was adding a batch of documents into the target library which I figured I could 'sort out' in a day, somewhere between 50 and 200. I found that awkward, so I asked how other people handled the initial load. It was theducks who suggested using an Intake library - probably the best idea he ever gave me Amongst other things I didn't want to pollute my target libraries with the various administrivia artefacts I use in 'sorting out' new books; such as an Intake Status column, dummy books to hold controlled vocabularies etc, and I wanted to use different View Manager settings in the Intake and target libraries. I also discovered I prefer working with the inter-library duplicates search of the Find Duplicates plugin than the within-library duplicate search. Hopefully this post may be pertinent to future readers of the thread. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 05-11-2018 at 04:28 AM. Reason: clarity

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05-11-2018, 02:40 AM	#19
Chris_Snow Zealot Posts: 148 Karma: 8170 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: kobo glo	Just noticted there was a page 2 of this thread - doh!. I can see the sense to doing it this way, but I think I would find two libraries harder to manage. Now I have a shortcut key to clear the spreadsheet makes it really easy. I also have a "BooksAdded1DayAgo" VL that I edit to make it longer if needed. That's what is so cool about calibre - lots of different ways of doing things.

05-11-2018, 01:17 PM	#21
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,792 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	You really don't MANAGE 2 Libraries. Intake is just the place you 'unbox' new books and prep them for addition to the Library. AKA the backroom at your Local Library (Yes, I worked in my school library when I was younger). This was where the checkout pocket was attached, library name stamped in specified locations... In Calibre, you need to clean the embedded metadata to conform to your style rules (Mine is Mixed case, reduced redundant tag variations, remove Author name from TAGS ...). In the end, the book is 'shelved' in the uses Library (AKA front of house)

05-11-2018, 05:17 PM	#22
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 35,356 Karma: 145435140 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Forma, Clara HD, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	I can't say much that hasn't already been said. The separate libraries make managing new books a lot easier for me. Much as BetterRed, I have information in Intake library view which are not needed for the main library and would only clutter the screen. I do like theduck's backroom and library metaphor. This may not work for everyone but it saves me time and effort.

05-11-2018, 06:55 PM	#23
Chris_Snow Zealot Posts: 148 Karma: 8170 Join Date: Jul 2013 Device: kobo glo	Wow...I can see others use their libraries so much differently than I do (a good thing). I deal with all additions to the library as single author imports (many times only one book at a time). This allows me to tweak all the stuff I want at that time (it'll never get done later). However, I do usually do all my final tweaks to the presentation of that book within calibre after I have read it - like correcting the myriad editing mistakes in the books (some are really bad - makes you think they never had a editor - and I'm talking mainstream books from mainstream publishers). I have a large PB library as well and compared to the ebook format, they are really well presented - it's like they don't care about putting effort into ebooks! Thanks for the comments. Always helpful. I like the term intake library. I must admit though, I'm so used to doing it like I do that changing it would perhaps present difficulties.