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Old 05-23-2020, 12:30 PM   #1
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Pick multiple random books?
I know that Viewer has the option to randomly select a book but does Calibre itself have an option to randomly select/highlight multiple books? Or is there a plugin that will do that?

Basically I have a lot of unread books and sometimes it's easier to pick, say, 10 books randomly to choose from for uploading to my kindle than trying to scroll through a couple thousand.
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I know that Viewer has the option to randomly select a book but does Calibre itself have an option to randomly select/highlight multiple books? Or is there a plugin that will do that?

Basically I have a lot of unread books and sometimes it's easier to pick, say, 10 books randomly to choose from for uploading to my kindle than trying to scroll through a couple thousand.
The dice Icon Picks a random book. set your view (Virtual Library) to show just Unread
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Old 05-24-2020, 10:30 AM   #3
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Dice icon? I'm using version 4.12.
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Right click the view button choose read a random book
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And if you dont want to launch the viewer go to Preferences->toolbars and add "Pick a random book" to the toolbar
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Found it. Thanks.
It would be nice if there was a way to select/highlight multiple books. I do have a large, ever changing vl of books I know I want to read next. Being able to randomly select a group at once would be nice.
Just a thought.
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