If you can’t find the cover that way, the cover likely doesn’t exist. You can use it to search Google for images to match the book by either title or author.
If this process doesn’t yield you the right cover, it might not exist. This will take you all of about ten seconds or however long it takes to type in the title/author. I selected the one from Barnes & Noble because it has the best resolution for my device. Select which record you prefer and then Calibre will search for covers.Ĭalibre returned three results and I got to choose which cover I wanted to use. Under the title on the right side, we see where calibre pulled the information.
with spaces in between? Instead of trying to guess and limiting my results, I only use the last name.Īs you can see this produces three results.
Lund, I’m not certain how the retailers categorize her. When using the download metadata function, sometimes you get more results by typing in less information. Read about installing plugins for Calibre here. These additional sources will help you to locate and then download the covers and metadata for your book. There are six resources you should install: How anal you are about this will affect how time consuming this is.Ĭalibre has a metadata search engine that reaches out to different places like Amazon and Google to pull down titles, author names, series, blurb and categories.īut there are third party plugins that can expand the scope of your search. Once you have your books split into their separate files, you want to download the correct metadata. Today I’m going to discuss adding additional sources and getting your metadata right. You can also add your own keywords to help search and locate books that might pique your interest. That helps to remind you what the story is about as you are browsing your TBR pile. Once you have them divided into their separate and individual files, you will want to ensure that you have the right cover, blurb, table of contents, and so forth.Ĭalibre has some great tools built in such as the ability to place the blurb of a book right at the front. Now I’m going to talk about cleaning up those books. I’m sure that there are others but those are a few. You want to keep track of all the books in your library.You don’t want to end up buying multiple copies of the same book.You want to keep track of how much more you have left in the book.The reason you would want to do this is for a number of reasons. Using Calibre and the third party plugin EPUB SPLIT, you can divide the box set into individual stories. With more and more box sets being sold, the aid of Calibre and its third party plugins has never been more valuable.
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