01-17-2014, 04:49 AM | #1 |
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Calibre for printed books
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I am using Calibre only for a couple of weeks but fell in love with it and its interface, thank you for the great product. Is there any way Calibre could be adapted to add printed books instead of only e-books and articles? Basically this feature would involve having a field where we could type the book ISBN and Calibre would show automatically the rest of the information of the book, to which we could add our customised info and book front cover picture (jpg) if we wish. There could be an option to add older books that had not any ISBN. I would like to centralize all my books into only one software. Any advice is welcome! |
01-17-2014, 05:54 AM | #2 |
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Well, adding an empty book (see the dropdown option on the Add button) then putting in the correct metadata would suffice, I think.
I was myself considering much the same thing, actually. EDIT: Thinking a little more about it, I suppose it could be possible to make an plugin that would allow the creation of a new, empty book from either a typed or a scanned ISBN, then automatically fetching the metadata... Last edited by aleyx; 01-17-2014 at 05:59 AM. |
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01-17-2014, 06:14 AM | #3 |
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I think the "Add from ISBN" menu item is what you're looking for. It's on the drop-down next to the "Add books" button.
For books without an ISBN use "Add empty book" and add the metadata manually. Or once you've added the author and title you should be able to download it - I've done this for the handful of non ebooks in my calibre library. |
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01-18-2014, 05:08 AM | #6 |
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o_O My eyes kept glancing over Add from ISBN. It never really registered with me 'till now...
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01-24-2014, 03:04 AM | #7 |
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Thank you
Well, the features were there in Calibre all the time! :-) Many thanks.
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