Nog wat interessante tips voor calibre (het komt van een SF forum, dus er zitten wat SF termen in):
Did you know that calibre supports working with multiple libraries (books icon right next to the heart icon on calibre toolbar)? This way you can have a separate library just for converting ebooks.
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You can add your own column to calibre (right click on let's say title and choose add your own column). For instance i created a column called "Already Read" which can have only the value of YES or NO.
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For me it is helpful in calibre that you can rename the name of a series for all it's titles by right clicking the series name in the list of the series (in the tag browser). The same is possible for the other categories like author, publisher etc.
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When I notice that a title in the collection got an nebula or hugo award (winner or nomination) I make a corresponding note in the comment section of the metadata. With a search for 'nebula' for example i get then a whole bunch of interesting books (and when I select all the searched 'nebula' books I can tag them with 'nebula' by right clicking and then edit metadata in bulk)
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When you add the files of an sff-update to the calibre library, normally calibre merges the different file formats of one title into one entry. In my opinion that's very helpful for clarity and a real advantage compared to the raw sff-collection. But often there are several entries of the same title for various reasons. You can merge them into one entry subsequently by marking them and then hit ALT-SHIFT-M (Edit Meta Data-Merge Book Records)
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fter adding the sff-update files to the calibre library you can download metadata (book descriptions, publisher, publishing date, ratings, tags) and covers for all the titles in one breath by marking them and then hit CTRL-D (Edit Meta Data - Download Metadata and Covers). In my opinion the covers and book descriptions are the biggest advantage of calibre - beside the search function. But often there are wrong metadata and covers. To prevent that, you have to deactivate a bad plug-in (Go to Preferences - Advanced - Plugins - Metadata download plugins - 'Douban Books' - Disable plugin) and better download only metadata and covers for files larger the 0,2 mb, cause for the smaller files (mostly short-stories) there are no metadata or covers in the data-bases and calibre takes the next best guess, which is wrong nine times out of ten. After the automated download of the metadata I edit the metadata manually with the help of 'fantasticfiction.co.uk', 'amazon.com' and 'google.com' respectively. For covers of magazines 'philsp.com' and 'isfdb.org' are very handy.
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Beware data from Amazon... I sell there and spend half my time correcting inaccurate and just plain wrong info when listing books... it's still useful but doea need the caveat "User Beware!"
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Was just annoyed trying to veiw an epub file, with mobipocket. And I found out you can open the file directly with no import, by using the calibre veiwer.
On Windows.
Right Click epub file
Select Open With
Find Calibre folder
Select ebook-viewer.exe and your done
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Similarly you can use ebook-convert (eg c:\Program Files\calibre2\ebook-convert.exe) to convert books between different formats without needing to load the book into the library in the first place.
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