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- <h2 class="ch-lvl" id="task1">Task 1: Organizing</h2>
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- <p class="calibre2">The first part of organizing is getting your e-books into calibre's
- database. Click the 'Add books' button on the top tool bar, then select the
- e-books you would like calibre to import. When calibre imports your e-books
- it makes a copy of the book, storing it in the storage location you
- specified during initial setup. Once you've added an e-book calibre doesn't
- need further access to the original file.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">During an e-book import, calibre tries to read the metadata from the
- e-book. Metadata is information about the book that is stored within the
- e-book itself. Different formats support different information. Often the
- information is incomplete or just plain wrong. Don't worry ΓÇô calibre makes
- it easy to fix this. Select the book whose metadata you want to change by
- clicking the book title in the main window. Then click 'Edit meta
- information' on the top tool bar (to the right of the 'Add books' button).
- The metadata editor will open.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">The easy way to get the metadata correct is to either fill in the title
- and author or the ISBN for the print version of the book, then click the
- 'Fetch metadata from server' button at the bottom left of the Edit Meta
- Information dialog window. Calibre will display possible matches for the
- information entered. If there is more than one match select the entry that
- looks like the best match. A lot of information should be filled in now.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">To the right of the 'Fetch metadata from server' button is the 'Download
- cover' button. If the book doesn't have a cover showing or if you don't like
- the cover click it to try to have calibre download one from the
- internet.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">Now that you have your e-books in calibre there are a few different ways
- to find an e-book in your collection. Searching is one of the fastest ways.
- Above the library table there is a search bar with a binoculars icon to the
- left of the search text input field. Think of it like having Google built
- into calibre. Just type a few key words into the Search text field. Try the
- author, title, series, or anything else from the e-book's metadata. E-books
- matching your search terms are shown as filtered results. The other e-books
- are still in your collection, but they won't be shown if the search
- expression doesn't find them.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">You can also use the tag browser to search your collection. Click the
- luggage tag icon in the lower right of the main window, between the curved
- arrow and the progress icon. A list will appear to the left of the library.
- It allows for you to display specific subsets of your collection to be shown
- in the main window. Clicking the disclosure triangle to the left of 'Author,
- 'Series', 'Publisher', 'News' or 'Tags' allows you to display just the
- e-books matching the criteria. Notice that as you enable items in the tag
- browser search queries are added to the search bar. The tag browser is
- really just an easy way to create search queries. You could type the query
- directly into the search bar and see the same result.</p>
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