[Feature Request] Bulk selection (mainly in list-view)

[kaibs]

First, I want to thank you for this great project. It really is a very nice improvement over the “stock” calibre-web!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

• I've been playing around with it for a few days now, and there is one feature I've been really missing. When using the “Book list”-view, you can't select a bunch of items without clicking on each one. This can be very annoying when editing, e.g., metadata for a series of books. Manually selecting 100 books would be incredibly tedious.

Describe the solution you'd like

• I would like to have the “standard” keyboard-shortcut for this. Pressing the shift-key while clicking on the first and last book of the group I want to select. E.g. Audiobookshelf does it this way, which is a very comparable use case.

[SoulOfNoob]

I was just about to open the exact same issue. For me a "select all" button would suffice, but having the possibility to select multiple items in a row with the usual shortcuts would be even better.

For now i use a js snippet in the browser console to select all checkboxes on the page as a workaround, maybe this helps someone else until this feature gets some attention:

document.querySelectorAll('[name="btSelectItem"]').forEach(function(e) {
    e.checked = true;
    e.dispatchEvent(new Event('click'));
});