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December 5, 2010 00:55
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Remove empty books from calibre (books that have no formats available)
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| calibredb list -f title,author_sort,formats | grep ".*\[\]\W*$" | cut -d " " -f 1 | xargs -iXX calibredb remove XX |
2022 calling! Thanks to the past. Still works with current Calibre. - Strange that Calibre would import 'books' that are available in 0 formats. It where just name of author & title and the cover art.
Clarification;I did not use the script. I mean; go to the search box in Calibre. Click on the configuration icon.And search there to formats:false. Then you have the selection of all empty books. Verify some to see the are indeed empty. ctrl+A to select all. And then 'remove books'. - This works fast even with a large database. No need to use manual commands.
@walterbe
It seems it's possible to create an "empty" book in calibre, and then add files to it later. So that would probably why this happens.
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I know this is an old post but it solved my issue today - I love a simple solution!