Move to Library

[sdfg]

Is there a way to move new books to the library, instead of copying them to it?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by sdfg

Is there a way to move new books to the library, instead of copying them to it?

@sdfg: if you put books into the Autoadd folder (see Preferences->Add Books->Automatic adding) they will be deleted from there after they are added to the library

BR

[sdfg]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@sdfg: if you put books into the Autoadd folder (see Preferences->Add Books->Automatic adding) they will be deleted from there after they are added to the library

BR

Putting them into that folder would still need the same the same number of operations as adding and then deleting, alas. I'd just like to select them from the (general purpose download) directory they appear in, and have them clear up the directory behind them.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by sdfg

Is there a way to move new books to the library, instead of copying them to it?

It is a copy with delete
which is a safer way in case there are issues

The end result is a Move

BTW if you do use this, you will notice the progress dialog says 'Move'

[eschwartz]

Just set the general purpose download directory to be the autoadd folder, and all ebooks that appear there will be automatically added and cleaned up without any actions whatsoever.

Also, choose which formats you want added, or else you will have calibre add stuff like DOCX and ZIP.

[sdfg]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Also, choose which formats you want added, or else you will have calibre add stuff like DOCX and ZIP.

Ah, that was my worry, everything goes in there XD It's unusual to find a program that clever. Thanks!

[edit] Although, that means there needs to be a listener program, right? What's the best way, can calibre sit in the background, or is this best added as a cron job?

[eschwartz]

calibre itself must be running to use its autoadd. It can sit as a system tray icon.

You can also make a custom script using "for file in *.epub *.mobi; do calibredb add $file && rm $file; done" or some variation thereof and put that in cron.

[sdfg]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

calibre itself must be running to use its autoadd. It can sit as a system tray icon.

You can also make a custom script using "for file in *.epub *.mobi; do calibredb add $file && rm $file; done" or some variation thereof and put that in cron.

Yeah that sounds good. It runs (mostly) headless, apart from xforwarding when I need to actually fix the metadata, which isn't all that often now the bulk of my library has been added. I'll probably just run it once a week when I rip my music and stuff, do all my media organization at once.

Does it run at startup then?

[eschwartz]

calibre's autoadd runs when calibre starts, and sits in the background waiting for spare cycles.

calibredb as a cron job quite naturally runs when you tell it to. calibredb is calibre's cli backend, for scripting calibre and using it in a headless environment.