How to copy book details?
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1halloleo
Can I copy all the details of a book found in an official source library (and added to my libary) into an empty book in order to eliminate the From where?/Datasource reference?
Thanks!
Thanks!
2AnnieMod
Sure, if you insist. Not with a single step though.
Open each of them in its own separate tab/window and copy the fields one by one.
What is the problem with having the source in the book?
Open each of them in its own separate tab/window and copy the fields one by one.
What is the problem with having the source in the book?
3halloleo
>2 AnnieMod:: Sorry to reply so late! (I do have trouble with the fact that the LibraryThing forums do not send notifications on threads...)
Anyway, Thanks for your sugegstion, but I was obviously hoping for a more elegant solution than copying fields by hand...
And my concern with having the source in the book is that I only wanted to use the field information from the source for a completely different version of the book. (I am talking about The mysterious affair at Styles in the version spoken by Phoebe Judge in a podcast.)
Anyway, Thanks for your sugegstion, but I was obviously hoping for a more elegant solution than copying fields by hand...
And my concern with having the source in the book is that I only wanted to use the field information from the source for a completely different version of the book. (I am talking about The mysterious affair at Styles in the version spoken by Phoebe Judge in a podcast.)
4AnnieMod
Unfortunately, there is no faster way. Depending on which elements you need, import may work as well but not all elements are importable.
5Nicole_VanK
LT can't be used as an import source. Or rather, not without such workarounds. Sorry.
6gilroy
As I look through this thread more closely, I should note something:
From Where is something you set. This means if you don't fill it in, then it's not filled in.
Data Source is filled in no matter what you do. It specifies how the book was added to your library. So even if you hand copy every other field, it will autofill with Manual Entry. And it can't be eliminated. Adding a second copy, with different data is possible, if you have a different format. And the source can change, depending on where you chose to get the new data from (Or if you chose to enter it manually.)
From Where is something you set. This means if you don't fill it in, then it's not filled in.
Data Source is filled in no matter what you do. It specifies how the book was added to your library. So even if you hand copy every other field, it will autofill with Manual Entry. And it can't be eliminated. Adding a second copy, with different data is possible, if you have a different format. And the source can change, depending on where you chose to get the new data from (Or if you chose to enter it manually.)
7lilithcat
>1 halloleo:
>6 gilroy: is right. "Data source" and "from where" are different things.
"Data source" means "which of LT's nearly 5,000 sources did you search to find the data" - something you do from the "Add books" page.
"From where" means "where was the book acquired?" - the name of the bookstore, the person who gave it to, "I found it in a dust bin". You do this from your book's "edit" page.
>6 gilroy: is right. "Data source" and "from where" are different things.
"Data source" means "which of LT's nearly 5,000 sources did you search to find the data" - something you do from the "Add books" page.
"From where" means "where was the book acquired?" - the name of the bookstore, the person who gave it to, "I found it in a dust bin". You do this from your book's "edit" page.
8halloleo
>6 gilroy:: >7 lilithcat:: Thanks for the pointer to "From where" - that;s a good one! :-)
