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Adding paper format books
I have many books in the old-fashioned paper format. I add them using the isbns to my library. It would be really great to have a format called "PAPER" fot these books.
Is there some way to add that format type to CalibrI apologize ahead of time if the question is stupid. Thanks |
Today, 01:02 PM | #2 |
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Format is for files, so logically paper only would have no formats. Though I use that for wish-list items. I'm too lazy to add the paper books. I even used to sell barcode & library software and could have set up the paper books 25+ years ago.
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Today, 01:15 PM | #3 |
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Just make an empty book record with no files, you can do so by right clicking the add books button
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I use a custom column that distinguishes between ebook, pbook and stub entries...
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You can produce your own custom format names by creating an empty file of any name with the format name as the extension.
I use a file named book.print and add that to entries in my calibre library that correspond to books I own as paper copies. When I look at the formats for those books in calibre I see PRINT along with whatever e-book formats I have for each book. |
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The attached zip file contains 0-byte dummy.paperbook and dummy.overdrive files.
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