03-22-2024, 02:52 PM | #1 |
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Is it possible to retrieve genre tags?
Books can be categorised in genres such as e.g.:
Fiction Nonfiction Arts & Music Biography Computers & Tech Cookbook Detective and Mystery Edu & Reference Fantasy Health & Fitness Historical fiction etc. etc. If I am not mistaken, Calibre does not accommodate for genres by default, but you can create a hierarchy for it yourself. (I should be able to find out how to do that) But, I am not enthusiastic about the idea that I will need to add such genres manually for each and every book myself. My question: Are there providers that Calibre can source tags from that provide such genres/categories? If so, which provider(s), and are there plugins that make it possible to retrieve and write them? TIA! |
03-22-2024, 07:10 PM | #2 |
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See metadata downloading in Editing e-book metadata. See also the Metadata download plugins == Index of plugins.
The column you want is "Tags/tags", it works like music tagging - a Tag exists because it's used (i.e. assigned to a book), from then on it can be applied to other books. If a Tag is removed from all books to which it has been applied it is removed - i.e. use it or lose it. There is no specific support to create or download a pre-defined list (e.g. from a library), into a taxonomy definition similar to the Controlled Vocabulary for IPTC Keywords… more's the pity. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-22-2024 at 10:34 PM. |
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03-23-2024, 03:39 AM | #3 | |
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Could you (or somebody else) recommend one or two plugins that are good at retrieving genres? |
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There's also this system of national libraries - forgot the name - but even that I find difficult. It's a third-party system, sometimes too granular, sometimes the opposite and sometimes complete nonsense. Long story short, I want to keep control without wasting too much time in corrections. But some standard Metadata PIs are e.g. Goodreads and Amazon |
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03-23-2024, 10:50 AM | #6 |
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Looking for more information about how to handle 'genres' I found a post by member 'Firehose'.
It (perfectly) explains a system that seems to work very well. So I would suggest other users that are also interested in this to check it out: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=359681 |
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For cleaning up the tags after download I would take a look at builtin Tag Mapper (you may need to add it to a menu with Preferences > Toolbars & Menus). It's not very well-documented though.
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One of the things about Calibre, is it only save 1 instance of a tag, no matter how many MAPPER items set it. So map away on variations or redundancies
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03-23-2024, 05:27 PM | #9 |
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03-24-2024, 02:11 PM | #10 |
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@ ownedbycats & theducks
I have a hard time understanding how your posts relate to what I am asking for and what this topic is about. Could you clarify? |
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Say the book has overloaded the tags with essential the same thing
The goal in this case: Science Fiction so we use the mapper to change any of the below : SF SciFi Sci Fi Science Fiction and Fantasy Science Fiction & Fantasy ... (and all the case permutations of the above ) |
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category, genre, hierarchy |
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