Can I extract Nook Table of Contents?

[karlpov]

Could B&N (or anyone else with the knowhow) develop a program which would allow me to put my Nook's tables of contents ("My B&N Documents" and "My Documents") into textfiles? I've put a lot of work into correcting OPF files so that they have correct title, author or editor name, and language, but I don't want to have to mess with the Windows filename as well. Being able to bring up a table of contents as I describe would help organize my collection and I wouldn't have to bezel through a hundred pages to see what titles are there.

[Doug_Pardee Distinguished Bibliophile]

Have you looked at Calibre?

[karlpov]

I have Calibre and use it for various things but I haven't found a way to convert its onscreen table of contents (or any elements thereof) to a textfile.

[Doug_Pardee Distinguished Bibliophile · Accepted solution]

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karlpov wrote:

I have Calibre and use it for various things but I haven't found a way to convert its onscreen table of contents (or any elements thereof) to a textfile.

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Click the drop-down arrow on the Convert Books tool and select "Create a catalog of the books in your calibre library". You'll probably want to output in CSV format, which you can treat as text (remove the first line) or can load into a spreadsheet.

[karlpov]

Thanks much, this worked pretty well, although Calibre seems to have limitations with some opf files and I had to make some corrections. It treats tags inconsistently. I've changed a lot of <dc:creator> entries to include opf:role="edt" (instead of "aut") (Calibre seems even more confused when I use "com" which seems to be more appropriate for the editor of an anthology). Sometimes it simply lists the author and other times it adds "ed." and then uses that for alphabetization. But these are things which can be fixed up. Thanks again.