Transfer only part of library to different computer

[kathyfromboston]

I have searched through the forums and cannot find my exact question. I needed to send my laptop (where my current Calibre library is located) in for repair. While it was gone, I used my old laptop to manage my ebooks and Nook. I have my repaired laptop back and I only want to transfer the books that I added for a few weeks in January to my current laptop.
The instructions to transfer the entire library to a new laptop is easy to find and this is what I did when i first got my new laptop. The Calibre library on my old laptop has quite a few books on it that I do not wish to move and I do not want to end up with two libraries on my current laptop.

Is there a way that I can choose specific books - even if it can only be done one at a time - and export/import to a different laptop into the existing Calibre library. I have tried several copy/paste ways, but none have been successful. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[BetterRed]

@kathyfromboston - try this

• Create a new folder on the 'old' laptop- call it New Books
• Start calibre on the 'old' laptop
• Create a library in the New Books folder
• Switch to the 'old' library on the 'old' laptop
• Sort by Date and select the books you added in January
• Copy those books to the New Books library
• Close calibre
• Copy the New Books library to a thumb drive
• Put the thumb drive into the repaired laptop
• Start calibre on the repaired laptop
• Switch to the New Books library on the thumb drive
• Select all the books
• Copy the selected books to your real library

The Switch/Create tool is in the library icon dropdown. The Copy to library tool is probably in the book list context (right click) menu, if not use Preferences->Toolbars and menus to add it to a menu/toolbar

BR

[kathyfromboston]

That worked perfectly!! Thanks so much for the excellent step-by-step instructions.