Can you Automatically Add tag to Book when it is Emailed to Kindle ?

sourcecodemage · Yesterday, 05:52 PM

I'm trying to make it easy to know which books in my library have been shared by email to the Kindle App or Kindle Device via the send2kindle service.

Things that I've tried

Metadata Plugboard - export to any device. This doesn't seem to be triggered by "share by email"
Auto Send Only Tags - This don't seem to do anything. I tried adding a tag a book to "trigger" share by email. And I tried sharing by email to see if the tag specified here would automatically be added. Neither worked. To be honest, the documentation doesn't explain what this field does, so I'm just trying things.

Is there a way to either

Have adding a tag to a book automatically share it by email?

or

Have sharing by email automatically add the tag to the book?

Either of those will let me know the book was sent by email, which is all I want.

Related:

What is the purpose of "Auto send only tags"

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kovidgoyal · Yesterday, 11:19 PM

auto send only tags restricts auto sending to books that have one of the matching tags. And no there is no builtin way to have calibre modify book metadata in the library when sending by email. You might be able to fake it by using the action chains plugin to create an action that add a tag and then sends by email.

Yesterday, 05:52 PM	#1
sourcecodemage Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Location: USA Device: Kindle Paperwhite 11th Gen	Can you Automatically Add tag to Book when it is Emailed to Kindle ? I'm trying to make it easy to know which books in my library have been shared by email to the Kindle App or Kindle Device via the send2kindle service. Things that I've tried Metadata Plugboard - export to any device. This doesn't seem to be triggered by "share by email" Auto Send Only Tags - This don't seem to do anything. I tried adding a tag a book to "trigger" share by email. And I tried sharing by email to see if the tag specified here would automatically be added. Neither worked. To be honest, the documentation doesn't explain what this field does, so I'm just trying things. Is there a way to either Have adding a tag to a book automatically share it by email? or Have sharing by email automatically add the tag to the book? Either of those will let me know the book was sent by email, which is all I want. Related: What is the purpose of "Auto send only tags"

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Yesterday, 11:19 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 46,142 Karma: 29626604 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	auto send only tags restricts auto sending to books that have one of the matching tags. And no there is no builtin way to have calibre modify book metadata in the library when sending by email. You might be able to fake it by using the action chains plugin to create an action that add a tag and then sends by email.

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