Creating Catalogs (Archived)

GRiker · 01-25-2010, 09:53 AM

Overview

Calibre's catalog feature generates a file summarizing selected books from your library in one of several formats: BIB, CSV, EPUB, MOBI or XML. CSV and XML output is intended to be manipulated in another program; BIB, EPUB and MOBI are intended as output formats to be read on a reader device.

Getting started

In Preferences|Conversion|Common Options|Page Setup, select an Output profile matching your device.
Click Convert books↓Create catalog of books in your calibre library to open the Generate catalog dialog window.
Catalog format specifies the output format for the generated catalog. If you are generating a catalog to be read on a device, select the appropriate output format. For example, Kindle users would select 'MOBI', iPad and Sony users would select 'EPUB'.
Catalog title will be the name of the generated catalog in your calibre library.
The Send catalog to device automatically checkbox indicates that you want calibre to download the generated catalog (enabled for EPUB/MOBI only) to your device upon completion.
The default settings will generate a useful catalog. If you want to customize the generated catalog, read on.

Customizing the output

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The E-book options tab provides customization control depending upon the selected catalog format:

CSV/XML: Choose which database fields will be saved in the generated catalog file. Standard columns plus custom columns you have added to your database are available for inclusion. After catalog generation, you will be prompted for a save location.

EPUB/MOBI: The E-book options tab provides greater control over catalog content.
- Included sections:
  - Books by Author - all books, sorted by author
  - Books by Title - all books, sorted by title
  - Books by Series - all series books, sorted by series
  - Books by Genre - all enabled genres, with individual genres sorted by Author and Series
  - Recently Added - all included books sorted in reverse chronological order by date added to your library over the last 30 days, plus a month-by-month listing of added books.
  - Descriptions - detailed descriptions of each book, including cover and Comments. Description pages are sorted by author, with regular titles followed by series titles.
- Excluded genres. A regex pattern describing tags to exclude as genres.
  Tags are used to create the genre sections in your catalog. You may be using certain tags that you don't want included as genres in the catalog. For example, you might use a tag [Amazon freebie], but you don't want that tag included as a genre in your catalog. The default exclusion pattern \[.+]] excludes any tags of the form [<tag>] as genres.
- Excluded books. Two options are provided for excluding individual books from the catalog:
  - Tags to exclude specifies a comma-separated list of individual tags to be skipped. The default of ~,Catalog will skip books tagged with ~ or Catalog.
  - Column/value specifies a custom column/value pair specifying books to be skipped. For example, if you have a custom column Status with some books marked Archived that you want to exclude from the catalog, you would select the custom column Status from the combo box, and type Archived in the edit box.
  - These two options are logically OR'd together - a book matching either criteria will be excluded from the catalog.
- Read books. This column/value pair allows you to specify how books you've read are recognized. Read books are displayed with a checkmark in the catalog. For example, if you create a custom column called Last Read of column type Date to help you remember when you last read a particular book, specifying a column of Last Read with a value of .* would mark all books with any date in that column as read.
- Other options.
  - Wishlist tag specifies a tag used to mark a book as a wishlist item. Wishlist items are displayed with an X in the catalog.
  - Thumbnail width specifies a width preference for cover thumbnails included in the Descriptions section. The catalog generator caches these thumbnails for performance reasons; changing this value invalidates the cache. If you want to experiment with different widths, try building a catalog with just a few books until you've found your optimal width, then build your entire catalog. The first time a catalog is generated with a new thumbnail width will be slower, but subsequent builds will take advantage of the cache.
  - Description note specifies a custom column's contents to be inserted into the Description header, opposite the cover. For example, you might want to display the date you last read a book using a Last Read custom column described earlier. For advanced use of the Description note feature, see this post.
  - Merge with Comments specifies a custom column whose content will be non-destructively merged with the Comments field during catalog generation. For example, you might have a custom colum Author Bio that you'd like to append to the Comments section. You can choose to insert the custom column contents before or after the Comments section, and optionally separate the appended content with a horizontal rule.

Customizing the Descriptions template and Section lists

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If you wish to change the default appearance of the Description pages or Section lists, you can create a local copy of the template and CSS files which will override the default layout. This requires familiarity with HTML and CSS.

Open your calibre configuration directory - Preferences|Advanced|Miscellaneous|Open calibre configuration directory.
Within this directory, create a subdirectory resources (if it doesn't already exist).
Within the newly created resources directory, create a subdirectory catalog.
Open a new file system window, navigate to the default catalog resources folder:
- OSX: Applications/calibre/Contents/Resources/resources/catalog
- Windows:Program Files\Calibre2\resources\catalog
Copy all of the files from the default catalog resources folder to the newly created resources/catalog directory within your calibre configuration directory.
Edit template.xhtml and stylesheet.css to your preferences. If you want to start over, copy from the default template and CSS files again. If you want to discard your customizations, delete the catalog subfolder from your calibre configuration resources directory.

Customizing the Description page. Available fields in template.xhtml:

{author} - Book author(s)
{author_prefix} - Checkmark if read, 'X' if wishlist, else blank
{comments} - Contents of the book's Comments field
{formats} - List of installed formats
{genres} - List of genres
{note_content} - Note content as specified in options
{note_source} - Note source field as specified in options
{pubdate} - Month/Year published
{publisher} - Publisher
{pubmonth} - Month published
{pubyear} - Year published
{rating} - Graphical rating
{series} - Series name
{series_index} - Series index
{thumb} - Cover thumb url
{title} - Book title

Example: Changing year of publication in Description header

Default: <td class="date">{pubyear}</td>
Removed: <td class="date"></td>
Augmented: <td class="date">Year of publication: {pubyear}</td>
Modified: <td class="date">{pubmonth} {pubyear}</td>

Customizing the Section lists. Templates controlling the display of book titles in the various Section lists (Books by Author, Books by Title, etc) may be edited to taste.
Available fields in section_list_templates.py:

{title} - Title of the book
{series} - Series name
{series_index} - Number of the book in the series
{rating} - 0-5 stars
{rating_parens} - (0-5 stars)
{pubyear} - Year the book was published
{pubyear_parens} - (Year the book was published)

Example: Changing Books by Author to remove year of publication:

Default:

Code:

by_authors_normal_title_template = '{title} {pubyear_parens}'
by_authors_series_title_template = '[{series_index}] {title} {pubyear_parens}'

Year of publication removed:

Code:

by_authors_normal_title_template = '{title}'
by_authors_series_title_template = '[{series_index}] {title}'

Rating added:

Code:

by_authors_normal_title_template = '{title} {rating}'
by_authors_series_title_template = '[{series_index}] {title} {rating}'

Tips for experimenting with customization:

Work with a small subset of your catalog, 5-10 books
If you are experimenting with Section list templates, disable Descriptions in E-book options - catalog generation will be much faster.
If you are experimenting with CSS, build an EPUB version of your catalog, explode it with the Tweak EPUB feature to find the class of the element you want to change.

Controlling which books are exported to your catalog

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Known Issues

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Creating catalogs from the command line

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Tagging Tips

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Tips for Kindle users

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If You Have Problems

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Review this thread for possible solutions
If someone else has had a similar problem, you may find the solution in this thread. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, please post your problem in this thread.
Update to most recent version of calibre
Problems that have been reported are usually fixed in the next release of calibre. It's a good policy to stay current with the most recent release.
I can't see my catalog on my Kindle
Because your catalog is formatted as a periodical, it will only be visible on the Home page if you are viewing 'Subscriptions' or 'All My Items'. If you are showing 'Books' or 'Personal Docs' at the top of your Kindle's Home page, your catalog will not be visible on the Home page.
No books found to catalog

Books are shown in the main window, but they are all excluded. Check Tags to exclude and Column/Value in the Excluded books section of the E-book options dialog.
Inconsistent Author Sort values

Having a single author with different Author Sort values among different books will terminate catalog generation. To fix this, type author:<author name> in the Search box to isolate all books by the author. Select all of the displayed books, then click the Edit metadata icon, or type E. Click the Automatically set author sort checkbox, then the OK button.

A quicker approach is to use the Manage authors dialog to reset all Author Sort values in the database at once. Open the Tag Browser, right-click on Authors, select Manage authors.
Invalid cover file warning

This warning occurs when a cover associated with a book cannot be read as an image file. The catalog is built with a default cover substituted for the problem cover.
Tag problems. The quick way to confirm this is to change the regex expression in the EPUB/MOBI options tab. The default value ignores tags of the form [<tag>]. By changing the regex to . (a single period) all tags will be ignored as genres. Build the catalog again; if that works, then you need to so some housekeeping on your tags. Review Tagging Tips above.
Creating a bug report
- Create a debug log
  - Click the Jobs: icon in the lower right corner of calibre's main window
  - In the calibre - jobs dialog window, click on the most recent (closest to the top) Generate catalog job
  - Click the Show job details button
  - Select all of the text in the 'Generate catalog' window, and copy it to your clipboard
  - Save that text to DEBUG.TXT
- Go to calibre's project management site to create a ticket.
- Attach the DEBUG.TXT file to the ticket.

Implementation history

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Please post any questions or comments in this thread.

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theducks · 01-25-2010, 11:15 AM

How do you control where(which storage) the Send to Device Automatic chooses to place the (EPUB) Catalog?

My preference is for Separate (from Send To Device) control.
I would like to keep the Index on the Main Storage (Where I also keep the Manual for the device, bus and train schedules), while leaving the Device Library on the SD Card.

Thanks

GRiker · 01-25-2010, 11:44 AM

I believe that it would follow the preferences you have set in 'Set default send to device action' using the small dropdown arrow next to the 'Send to device' icon.

Please create a ticket for a feature request if that's something you feel strongly about.

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theducks · 01-25-2010, 12:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

I believe that it would follow the preferences you have set in 'Set default send to device action' using the small dropdown arrow next to the 'Send to device' icon.

Please create a ticket for a feature request if that's something you feel strongly about.

G

Not that strongly

There is the Manual mode that works for me.

alecE · 01-25-2010, 05:50 PM

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate the catalogue creation feature - great idea

I'll also put in a ticket to suggest including the series data - nice to have, but by no means essential.

banjomike · 01-25-2010, 09:12 PM

Nice feature.

Is there any way to sort titles within an author?

If I select Authors, go to 'O' and find Peter ODonnell, I then get exactly 100 entries for him, all present and correct, but in a completely random order.

Just noticed that they are also in random order in the Titles section.

EPUB format.

chilady1 · 01-25-2010, 09:43 PM

I am getting a slew of errors trying to generate a MOBI catalog from Calibre. Where can I go for someone to look at the error code being generated to understand what might be preventing me from getting the catalog?

DoctorOhh · 01-26-2010, 04:47 AM

I tried to create a epub catalog by accepting the defaults and received the following error.

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GRiker · 01-26-2010, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by dwanthny

I tried to create a epub catalog by accepting the defaults and received the following error.

Fixed in next release.

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DoctorOhh · 01-26-2010, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

Fixed in next release.

G

Thanks for the quick reply.

96 posts 96 karma

Don't see that often.

GRiker · 01-26-2010, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by chilady1

I am getting a slew of errors trying to generate a MOBI catalog from Calibre. Where can I go for someone to look at the error code being generated to understand what might be preventing me from getting the catalog?

Please post the failure log.

When the 'Failed: Generate catalog' dialog is shown, click the copy button, then paste the results into your posting.

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GRiker · 01-26-2010, 07:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by banjomike

Nice feature.

Is there any way to sort titles within an author?

If I select Authors, go to 'O' and find Peter ODonnell, I then get exactly 100 entries for him, all present and correct, but in a completely random order.

Just noticed that they are also in random order in the Titles section.

EPUB format.

The books should be sorted by title. However, there are some sorting features that may not be apparent:

Leading stop words (The, A, An ...) are ignored

Numbers are translated to words for sort purposes, e.g., '1968' is sorted as 'Nineteen sixty-eight'

Does that explain what you're seeing?

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banjomike · 01-26-2010, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

The books should be sorted by title. However, there are some sorting features that may not be apparent:

Leading stop words (The, A, An ...) are ignored

Numbers are translated to words for sort purposes, e.g., '1968' is sorted as 'Nineteen sixty-eight'

Does that explain what you're seeing?

G

"may not be apparent", I can't think why you might think that but yes, it does explain it.

BUT, I've added a screen cap to show what it looks like. In my case it makes the catalog confusing.

Is there a way to turn it off and have a straight alphanumeric sort?

GinnyB · 01-26-2010, 10:56 AM

Error Messages - I'm so frustrated!

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GinnyB · 01-26-2010, 10:58 AM

I'm so sorry!!! I didn't mean to copy the WHOLE error message. Pardon me for the long post! That was my first post in the forum. Now I'll get kicked out for being stupid!

01-25-2010, 09:53 AM	#1
GRiker Comparer of the Ephemeris Posts: 1,496 Karma: 424697 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad	Creating Catalogs (Archived) Overview Calibre's catalog feature generates a file summarizing selected books from your library in one of several formats: BIB, CSV, EPUB, MOBI or XML. CSV and XML output is intended to be manipulated in another program; BIB, EPUB and MOBI are intended as output formats to be read on a reader device. Getting started In Preferences\|Conversion\|Common Options\|Page Setup, select an Output profile matching your device. Click Convert books↓Create catalog of books in your calibre library to open the Generate catalog dialog window. Catalog format specifies the output format for the generated catalog. If you are generating a catalog to be read on a device, select the appropriate output format. For example, Kindle users would select 'MOBI', iPad and Sony users would select 'EPUB'. Catalog title will be the name of the generated catalog in your calibre library. The Send catalog to device automatically checkbox indicates that you want calibre to download the generated catalog (enabled for EPUB/MOBI only) to your device upon completion. The default settings will generate a useful catalog. If you want to customize the generated catalog, read on. Customizing the output Spoiler: The E-book options tab provides customization control depending upon the selected catalog format: CSV/XML: Choose which database fields will be saved in the generated catalog file. Standard columns plus custom columns you have added to your database are available for inclusion. After catalog generation, you will be prompted for a save location. EPUB/MOBI: The E-book options tab provides greater control over catalog content. Included sections: Books by Author - all books, sorted by author Books by Title - all books, sorted by title Books by Series - all series books, sorted by series Books by Genre - all enabled genres, with individual genres sorted by Author and Series Recently Added - all included books sorted in reverse chronological order by date added to your library over the last 30 days, plus a month-by-month listing of added books. Descriptions - detailed descriptions of each book, including cover and Comments. Description pages are sorted by author, with regular titles followed by series titles. Excluded genres. A regex pattern describing tags to exclude as genres. Tags are used to create the genre sections in your catalog. You may be using certain tags that you don't want included as genres in the catalog. For example, you might use a tag [Amazon freebie], but you don't want that tag included as a genre in your catalog. The default exclusion pattern \[.+]] excludes any tags of the form [<tag>] as genres. Excluded books. Two options are provided for excluding individual books from the catalog: Tags to exclude specifies a comma-separated list of individual tags to be skipped. The default of ~,Catalog will skip books tagged with ~ or Catalog. Column/value specifies a custom column/value pair specifying books to be skipped. For example, if you have a custom column Status with some books marked Archived that you want to exclude from the catalog, you would select the custom column Status from the combo box, and type Archived in the edit box. These two options are logically OR'd together - a book matching either criteria will be excluded from the catalog. Read books. This column/value pair allows you to specify how books you've read are recognized. Read books are displayed with a checkmark in the catalog. For example, if you create a custom column called Last Read of column type Date to help you remember when you last read a particular book, specifying a column of Last Read with a value of .* would mark all books with any date in that column as read. Other options. Wishlist tag specifies a tag used to mark a book as a wishlist item. Wishlist items are displayed with an X in the catalog. Thumbnail width specifies a width preference for cover thumbnails included in the Descriptions section. The catalog generator caches these thumbnails for performance reasons; changing this value invalidates the cache. If you want to experiment with different widths, try building a catalog with just a few books until you've found your optimal width, then build your entire catalog. The first time a catalog is generated with a new thumbnail width will be slower, but subsequent builds will take advantage of the cache. Description note specifies a custom column's contents to be inserted into the Description header, opposite the cover. For example, you might want to display the date you last read a book using a Last Read custom column described earlier. For advanced use of the Description note feature, see this post. Merge with Comments specifies a custom column whose content will be non-destructively merged with the Comments field during catalog generation. For example, you might have a custom colum Author Bio that you'd like to append to the Comments section. You can choose to insert the custom column contents before or after the Comments section, and optionally separate the appended content with a horizontal rule. Customizing the Descriptions template and Section lists Spoiler: If you wish to change the default appearance of the Description pages or Section lists, you can create a local copy of the template and CSS files which will override the default layout. This requires familiarity with HTML and CSS. Open your calibre configuration directory - Preferences\|Advanced\|Miscellaneous\|Open calibre configuration directory. Within this directory, create a subdirectory resources (if it doesn't already exist). Within the newly created resources directory, create a subdirectory catalog. Open a new file system window, navigate to the default catalog resources folder: OSX: Applications/calibre/Contents/Resources/resources/catalog Windows:Program Files\Calibre2\resources\catalog Copy all of the files from the default catalog resources folder to the newly created resources/catalog directory within your calibre configuration directory. Edit template.xhtml and stylesheet.css to your preferences. If you want to start over, copy from the default template and CSS files again. If you want to discard your customizations, delete the catalog subfolder from your calibre configuration resources directory. Customizing the Description page. Available fields in template.xhtml: {author} - Book author(s) {author_prefix} - Checkmark if read, 'X' if wishlist, else blank {comments} - Contents of the book's Comments field {formats} - List of installed formats {genres} - List of genres {note_content} - Note content as specified in options {note_source} - Note source field as specified in options {pubdate} - Month/Year published {publisher} - Publisher {pubmonth} - Month published {pubyear} - Year published {rating} - Graphical rating {series} - Series name {series_index} - Series index {thumb} - Cover thumb url {title} - Book title Example: Changing year of publication in Description header Default: <td class="date">{pubyear}</td> Removed: <td class="date"></td> Augmented: <td class="date">Year of publication: {pubyear}</td> Modified: <td class="date">{pubmonth} {pubyear}</td> Customizing the Section lists. Templates controlling the display of book titles in the various Section lists (Books by Author, Books by Title, etc) may be edited to taste. Available fields in section_list_templates.py: {title} - Title of the book {series} - Series name {series_index} - Number of the book in the series {rating} - 0-5 stars {rating_parens} - (0-5 stars) {pubyear} - Year the book was published {pubyear_parens} - (Year the book was published) *Example: Changing Books by Author* to remove year of publication: Default: Code: by_authors_normal_title_template = '{title} {pubyear_parens}' by_authors_series_title_template = '[{series_index}] {title} {pubyear_parens}' Year of publication removed: Code: by_authors_normal_title_template = '{title}' by_authors_series_title_template = '[{series_index}] {title}' Rating added: Code: by_authors_normal_title_template = '{title} {rating}' by_authors_series_title_template = '[{series_index}] {title} {rating}' Tips for experimenting with customization: Work with a small subset of your catalog, 5-10 books If you are experimenting with Section list templates, disable Descriptions** in E-book options - catalog generation will be much faster. If you are experimenting with CSS, build an EPUB version of your catalog, explode it with the Tweak EPUB feature to find the class of the element you want to change. Controlling which books are exported to your catalog Spoiler: What you see is what you get: If you want all of your collection exported to your catalog (using the exclusions noted above), remove any search criteria by clearing the Search: field. With a single book selected (or no books selected), all books in your collection will be candidates for export to the generated catalog. Books matched with Exclusion criteria will not be added to the catalog. If you want only some of your collection exported to the generated catalog, you have two options:  Drag-select the books you want exported. With more than one book selected, only the selected books will be exported. Use the Search: field to filter the displayed books. With a single book selected (or no books selected) in the filtered list, only the displayed books will be exported. Known Issues Spoiler: Depending upon the size of your library, and the Sections you include when generating a catalog, it is possible to create a very large ebook which can overwhelm your ereader. If you observe sluggish performance or even crashes when browsing your generated catalog, consider reducing the size of the generated catalog by eliminating Sections or splitting up your library into smaller catalogs. Kindle 1 is not supported. Users have reported that the Kindle for PC app does not use the same font as the Kindle2 and KindleDX, so the checkmark for a read book does not display properly. The Kindle Previewer app does display correctly. Creating catalogs from the command line Spoiler: All catalog generation functionality is available through calibre's CLI interface: Type 'calibredb catalog --help' for general options Type 'calibredb catalog .[csv\|epub\|mobi\|xml] --help' for options specific to a output format Tagging Tips Spoiler: By following a few simple guidelines, your database will be easier to keep organized and the Catalog generation process will run more quickly. Use a simple, consistent scheme for tagging. It's better to have separate Fiction, Romance and Suspense tags than a single Fiction-Romance-Suspense tag. Use the Edit metadata dialog to add/edit tags. Use existing tags whenever possible. Learn to use the bulk metadata editing feature to change tags on groups of books at a time. You can easily preview how your genre groups will be assembled by using the Search feature. Type tag:Fiction in the Search: box to see all books tagged with Fiction. To list books without a particular tag, e.g. Fiction, type not tag:Fiction. Take a look at the log generated in the Jobs dialog. It will show you all of the tags in your database, plus those actually used in your generated catalog. Tips for Kindle users Spoiler: The catalog builder has some special TOC optimizations for Kindle users. I can't see my catalog on my Kindle Because your catalog is formatted as a periodical, it will only be visible on the Home page if you are viewing 'Subscriptions' or 'All My Items'. If you 'Books' or 'Personal Docs' is displayed at the top of your Kindle's Home page, your catalog will not be visible on the Home page. To explore your catalog through the Kindle TOC: From the Home screen, move the highlight to your catalog, then toggle right. Move the highlight down to 'Go to Section...', then click to open the Sections List. Highlighting and clicking on a Section name (Descriptions, Authors, Titles, Recently Added, Genres) will take you to that Section. Highlighting and clicking on the number in parentheses (right of the Section) will take you to a high-level overview of that Section in your catalog. Try it. If you end up somewhere you didn't expect to be, just press the Back button on your Kindle to return to the previously displayed page. If You Have Problems Spoiler: Review this thread for possible solutions If someone else has had a similar problem, you may find the solution in this thread. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, please post your problem in this thread. Update to most recent version of calibre Problems that have been reported are usually fixed in the next release of calibre. It's a good policy to stay current with the most recent release. I can't see my catalog on my Kindle Because your catalog is formatted as a periodical, it will only be visible on the Home page if you are viewing 'Subscriptions' or 'All My Items'. If you are showing 'Books' or 'Personal Docs' at the top of your Kindle's Home page, your catalog will not be visible on the Home page. No books found to catalog Books are shown in the main window, but they are all excluded. Check Tags to exclude and Column/Value in the Excluded books section of the E-book options dialog. Inconsistent Author Sort values Having a single author with different Author Sort values among different books will terminate catalog generation. To fix this, type author:<author name> in the Search box to isolate all books by the author. Select all of the displayed books, then click the Edit metadata icon, or type E. Click the Automatically set author sort checkbox, then the OK button. A quicker approach is to use the Manage authors dialog to reset all Author Sort values in the database at once. Open the Tag Browser, right-click on Authors, select Manage authors. Invalid cover file warning This warning occurs when a cover associated with a book cannot be read as an image file. The catalog is built with a default cover substituted for the problem cover. Tag problems. The quick way to confirm this is to change the regex expression in the EPUB/MOBI options tab. The default value ignores tags of the form [<tag>]. By changing the regex to . (a single period) all tags will be ignored as genres. Build the catalog again; if that works, then you need to so some housekeeping on your tags. Review Tagging Tips above. Creating a bug report Create a debug log Click the Jobs: icon in the lower right corner of calibre's main window In the calibre - jobs dialog window, click on the most recent (closest to the top) Generate catalog job Click the Show job details button Select all of the text in the 'Generate catalog' window, and copy it to your clipboard Save that text to DEBUG.TXT Go to calibre's project management site to create a ticket. Attach the DEBUG.TXT file to the ticket. Implementation history Spoiler: 0.6.35: initial implementation supporting CSV, EPUB, XML for Kindle 2 and DX. 0.6.36: add support for MOBI 0.6.37: add 'Recently Added' section, title sorting option, improved debug diagnostics 0.6.38: 'Titles' and 'Recently Added' sections optional, support for formatting markup in descriptions (<br/>, <b>, <i>), display Series information 0.6.42: add 'Last 30 days' to Recently Added Section, change title display style in Titles Section when book is part of series, various bug fixes and improvements. 0.6.43: add 'Apply' button to Catalog dialog, applying changes to catalog build criteria without initiating build process. Introduce experimental feature 'Recently Read' (Kindle only). If Kindle is connected when initiating catalog build and 'Recently Added' is enabled, bookmarks are scanned and listed in a 'Recently Read' section, including a progress meter. 0.7.18: add 'Series' section, similar to Genres section. Many revisions to layout in EPUB/MOBI catalogs. Add 'ondevice' field in CSV/XML catalogs. 0.7.29: Added 'Wishlist' feature, thumbnail caching, revised description page layout. 0.7.32: Revised method for recognizing read books. 0.7.36: New UI for EPUB/MOBI E-book options, added support for custom columns, variable thumbnail width, customizable Description template, improved widow/orphan management. 0.7.37: Bug fixes for Windows users. 0.7.39: Author with differing author_sort values will cause catalog generation to terminate. Offending authors are written to the Job log. 0.7.41: Added Section list templates, enabling customization of title format. Added diagnostic warning and error dialogs for Author Sort mismatches, corrupt cover images. All Section lists are now optional. Please post any questions or comments in this thread. G Last edited by GRiker; 01-23-2011 at 12:59 PM. Reason: Updated for changes in 0.7.41

01-25-2010, 11:15 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,452 Karma: 58055868 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Send to device Automatically question How do you control where(which storage) the Send to Device Automatic chooses to place the (EPUB) Catalog? My preference is for Separate (from Send To Device) control. I would like to keep the Index on the Main Storage (Where I also keep the Manual for the device, bus and train schedules), while leaving the Device Library on the SD Card. Thanks

01-25-2010, 09:12 PM	#6
banjomike Addict Posts: 319 Karma: 397404 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: UK Device: PRS-505,DSlibris,nook Glow & HD+,Tab S2,Moon+,Clara,Clara Colour	Nice feature. Is there any way to sort titles within an author? If I select Authors, go to 'O' and find Peter ODonnell, I then get exactly 100 entries for him, all present and correct, but in a completely random order. Just noticed that they are also in random order in the Titles section. EPUB format. Last edited by banjomike; 01-25-2010 at 09:18 PM. Reason: adding new info

01-25-2010, 09:43 PM	#7
chilady1 I devour books! Posts: 789 Karma: 1285226 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad Air, Kindle 3/Kobo Aura HD, iPhone 6	Errors in generating catalog I am getting a slew of errors trying to generate a MOBI catalog from Calibre. Where can I go for someone to look at the error code being generated to understand what might be preventing me from getting the catalog?

01-26-2010, 04:47 AM	#8
DoctorOhh US Navy, Retired Posts: 9,867 Karma: 13806776 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Icarus Illumina XL HD, Kindle PaperWhite SE 11th Gen	I tried to create a epub catalog by accepting the defaults and received the following error. Spoiler: ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog Generate catalog Catalog_EPUB_MOBI:run path_to_output: c:\docume~1\whanthon\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.6.36_ 4el6sb_catalog_out.epub Output format: epub Book count: 1116 opts: basename: Catalog catalog_title: My Books creator: calibre descriptionClip: 250 exclude_genre: \[[\w ]\] exclude_tags: ~,Catalog fmt: epub log: <calibre.utils.logging.Log object at 0x03797D10> note_tag: output_profile: sony plugin_path: <class 'calibre.library.catalog.EPUB_MOBI'> read_tag: + search_text: None sort_by: None verbose: True CatalogBuilder(): Generating epub for sony 0.00% fetchBooksByTitle() Python function terminated unexpectedly local variable 'result' referenced before assignment (Error Code: 1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "site.py", line 103, in main File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 59, in gui_catalog File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2391, in run File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 734, in buildSources File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 838, in fetchBooksByTitle File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2287, in generateSortTitle File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 298, in __init__ File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 413, in numberTranslate File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 340, in stringFromInt UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment

01-25-2010, 11:44 AM	#3
GRiker Comparer of the Ephemeris Posts: 1,496 Karma: 424697 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: iPad	I believe that it would follow the preferences you have set in 'Set default send to device action' using the small dropdown arrow next to the 'Send to device' icon. Please create a ticket for a feature request if that's something you feel strongly about. G

01-25-2010, 05:50 PM	#5
alecE Evangelist Posts: 412 Karma: 546196 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: UK canal boat Device: sony prs505, prs650, kobo Glo HD liseuses	Just wanted to say how much I appreciate the catalogue creation feature - great idea I'll also put in a ticket to suggest including the series data - nice to have, but by no means essential.

01-26-2010, 10:58 AM	#15
GinnyB Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle 2	I'm so sorry!!! I didn't mean to copy the WHOLE error message. Pardon me for the long post! That was my first post in the forum. Now I'll get kicked out for being stupid!

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