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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 |
Greetings from the future! 2025 and this still works! I get a couple of plugin initiation errors, but the script removes titles without formats.
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/prscarr/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Goodreads.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/prscarr/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Ignoble Epub DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/prscarr/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Inept Epub DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/prscarr/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Inept PDF DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/prscarr/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/Kindle and Mobipocket DeDRM.zip'
Failed to initialize plugin: '/Users/prscarr/Library/Preferences/calibre/plugins/eReader PDB 2 PML.zip'
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@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.