Beta. Books & Shelves is not released yet. These pages describe the build in progress.
Fix book details
Look up missing details such as an ISBN, review what was found, and accept only what is right.
Books & Shelves can look up a book's details and propose fixes. Nothing changes in Calibre until you accept it.
Look up details
- For one book: open its note and run Books & Shelves: Look up metadata for this book.
- For every book without an ISBN: select Look up… on the Review tab, or run Look up metadata for books without an ISBN.
For each book it:
- reads the book's first pages for the title, authors, publisher and year as printed;
- asks Open Library, and Google Books if you added a key, by the printed ISBN and by title and author;
- judges each record found against those pages. A record counts as this book only when a quote from it is found in the text.
What happens to what it finds
- A record the book itself confirms is queued for Calibre.
- So is one a decision model judges plausible with confidence.
- Everything else becomes a row to review, in
Books/Review.
Review and apply
- Open the review notes and accept or reject each row.
- Select Apply… under Apply accepted reviews, or run Apply accepted metadata reviews. Accepted rows become changes in the write queue.
- Write them to Calibre: see Changes to Calibre, and undo.
Duplicate author names
Run Books & Shelves: Find duplicate author names. Similar names are judged, and the likely duplicates are sent to review.