Creating Catalogs

GRiker · 01-25-2010, 08:53 AM

This post introduces calibre's new Catalog feature. Please use this thread for questions and comments.

Kindle 1 is not supported.

Users have reported that the Kindle for PC app does not use the same font as the Kindle2 and KindleDX, so the check mark for a read book does not display properly in these apps.

Implementation history

0.6.35: initial implementation supporting CSV, EPUB, XML for Kindle 2 and DX.
0.6.36: add support for MOBI
0.6.37: add 'Recently Added' section, title sorting option, improved debug diagnostics
0.6.38: 'Titles' and 'Recently Added' sections optional, support for formatting markup in descriptions (<br/>, <b>, <i>), display Series information
0.6.42: add 'Last 30 days' to Recently Added Section, change title display style in Titles Section when book is part of series, various bug fixes and improvements.
0.6.43: add 'Apply' button to Catalog dialog, applying changes to catalog build criteria without initiating build process. Introduce *experimental* feature 'Recently Read' (Kindle only). If Kindle is connected when initiating catalog build and 'Recently Added' is enabled, bookmarks are scanned and listed in a 'Recently Read' section, including a progress meter.

What is the Catalog feature?
The catalog feature enables you to export a catalog of selected E-books from your library in one of several formats: CSV, EPUB, MOBI or XML.

The default settings are probably fine for you, but if you want more information about how catalog generation works, read on.

If you have your output device set to 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' in Preferences|Conversion|Page Setup, selecting the MOBI output format takes advantage of the Kindle's TOC feature by creating the catalog in Kindle's periodical format, presenting the content in a structured format similar to a newspaper or magazine. You can use the Kindle 5-way joystick to navigate your catalog.
Here's a sample of what a catalog's TOC looks like on a Kindle:

How do I use the Catalog feature?
Click the small down arrow next to the Convert E-books icon, then select Create catalog of books from the dropdown list, displaying the 'Generate catalog' dialog.

The Catalog options tab displays the general options for the catalog:

Catalog format allows you to choose the output format for the generated catalog.

Catalog title is used as the name of the generated catalog in your calibre library, and as the title of the generated catalog in EPUB and MOBI output formats, and the name of the saved CSV or XML file.

The Send catalog to device automatically checkbox indicates that you want calibre to download the generated catalog (enabled for EPUB/MOBI only) to your device upon completion.

The second tab in the 'Generate catalog' dialog offers customization control depending upon the selected catalog format:

CSV/XML: For these text output formats, you have a choice of which database fields will be saved in the generated catalog file. You will be prompted for a save location when the catalog generation is complete.

EPUB/MOBI: For these E-book output formats, you describe how special marker tags are interpreted when generating your catalog.
Marker tags are used to tell the catalog builder to mark an E-book as read, to exclude an E-book from generated catalogs, and to add additional notes to a E-book's description page.
- Don't include this book (default: '~,Catalog') is used to skip an E-book when generating the catalog.
- Mark this book as read (default: '+') is used to show a book's read/unread status in the generated catalog.
- Additional note tag prefix (default: '*') is used to add a special user note in the generated catalog.
Any other tags in your database are interpreted as genre tags.

For example, if you use the tags 'Fiction' and 'Nonfiction', your catalog will include two articles in the Genres section - one including all E-books tagged with 'Fiction', the other including all E-books tagged with 'Nonfiction'. E-books without tags will still be included in the catalog's Description, Authors, and Titles sections, but not included in any genre lists. An E-book may have no genre tags, or as many as you want. It is perfectly fine to make a catalog with no genres.

The final field on this dialog is used to exclude certain tag patterns that would normally be interpreted as genre tags.
- Regex pattern describing tags to exclude as genres is a regular expression ('regex'). The default regex in this field ('\[[\w ]*\]') will recognize tags of the form [<tag>] as a special tag indicating the E-book's origin. For example, the tag '[Amazon freebie]' is useful in finding all free Amazon E-books in your collection, but these tags will not be interpreted as genres in the generated catalog output. If you're not a regex hacker, don't worry, just use the default pattern supplied.
Here are some tag examples and their meaning, using the default marker tag assignments described above:
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, [Amazon freebie]
- This E-book will be added to the 'Fiction' and 'Suspense' genre lists
- '[Amazon freebie]' is ignored during catalog generation
Tags: ~, Adult
- This E-book will not be included in the generated catalog.
Tags: Science Fiction,Mystery,[Project Gutenberg],+
- This E-book will be included in the genre lists 'Science Fiction' and 'Mystery'
- '[Project Gutenberg]' is ignored during catalog generation
- '+' means the E-book will be marked as read in various lists within the generated catalog.
Tags: Nonfiction,*Jeff should read this
- This E-book will be included in the genre list 'Nonfiction'
- The note 'Jeff should read this' will be displayed in this E-book's description page.

Controlling which E-books are exported to your catalog
What you see is what you get:

If you want all of your collection exported to your catalog (using the exclusions noted above), remove any search criteria by clearing the Search: field. With a single E-book selected (or no E-books selected), all E-books in your collection will be candidates for export to the generated catalog.

If you want only some of your collection exported to the generated catalog, you have two options: 
- Drag-select the E-books you want exported. With more than one E-book selected, only the selected E-books will be exported.
- Use the Search: field to filter the displayed E-books. With a single E-book selected (or no E-books selected) in the filtered list, only the displayed E-books will be exported.

Implementation Notes

MOBI output has only been tested with Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. If you have your output profile set to 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' in Preferences|ConversionPage Setup, and you select 'MOBI' as the output format in the Catalog options tab, the resulting MOBI file will be in the Kindle periodical format, with four sections:
- Descriptions - full descriptions of each E-book
- Authors - all included E-books sorted by Author
- Titles - all included E-books sorted by Title
- Recently Added - all included E-books sorted in reverse chronological order by date added to your collection
- Genres - all generated Genres,with individual genres sorted by Author
Note: MOBI catalog format available in 0.6.36 and later.
Note: 'Recently Added' section available in 0.6.37 and later.

All of the catalog functionality is available through calibre's CLI interface.
Type 'calibredb catalog --help' for general options
Type 'calibredb catalog .[csv|epub|mobi|xml] --help' for options specific to a format

Tagging Tips
By following a few simple guidelines, your database will be easier to keep organized and the Catalog generation process will run more quickly.

Use a simple, consistent scheme for tagging. It's better to have separate Fiction, Romance and Suspense tags than a single Fiction-Romance-Suspense tag.
Use the Edit metadata dialog to add/edit tags. Use existing tags whenever possible.
Learn to use the bulk metadata editing feature to change tags on groups of books at a time.
You can easily preview how your genre groups will be assembled by using the Search feature. Type 'tag:Fiction' in the Search: box to see all books tagged with 'Fiction'. To list books without a particular tag, e.g. 'Fiction', type 'not tag:Fiction'.
Take a look at the log generated in the Jobs dialog. It will show you all of the tags in your database, plus those actually used in your generated catalog.
If your tags are a complete mess, and you simply want to start over by removing all tags from your database:
- Highlight a single title in the main window
- Click Edit meta information or press shortcut key E to open the Edit Meta Information dialog
- Click the Open Tag Editor icon to the right of the Tags: field
- If there are any tags in the Applied tags column on the right, select them all and click the 'x' icon to the right of the Applied tags column to move them to the Available tags column on the left.
- Select all of the tags in the Available tags column by click-dragging through them, or clicking one tag then pressing Cmd/Ctrl-A to select all.
- Click the trash can icon to the left of the Available tags column to delete the tag names from the database.
- Click OK to exit the Tag Editor dialog
- Click OK to exit the Edit Meta Information dialog
- Press Cmd/Ctrl-A to select all books in your library
- Click Edit meta information or press E to open the Edit Meta Information dialog
- In the Remove tags: field, type '*' (no quotes)
- Click OK to remove the tags from the individual books. Poof.

Tips for Kindle users
The catalog builder has some special TOC optimizations for Kindle users.

To build a Kindle version of your catalog, open the Preferences|Conversion|Page Setup dialog, confirm that your Output profile is either Kindle or Kindle DX.

To explore your catalog through the Kindle TOC:
- From the Home screen, move the highlight to your catalog, then toggle right.
- Move the highlight down to 'Go to Section...', then click to open the Sections List.
- Highlighting and clicking on a Section name (Descriptions, Authors, Titles, Recently Added, Genres) will take you to that Section.
- Highlighting and clicking on the number in parentheses (right of the Section) will take you to a high-level overview of that Section in your catalog. Try it.
- If you end up somewhere you didn't expect to be, just press the Back button on your Kindle to return to the previously displayed page.

If You Have Problems

Review this thread for possible solutions
If someone else has had a similar problem, you may find the solution in this thread. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, please post your problem in this thread.

Update to most recent version of calibre
Problems that have been reported are usually fixed in the next release of calibre. It's a good policy to stay current with the most recent release.

Failure to generate catalog
This is most likely caused by some problems in the tags used to generate genres. The quick way to confirm this is to change the regex expression in the EPU/MOBI options tab. The default value of '\[[\w ]*\]' ignores tags of the form [tag]. By changing the regex to '.' (that's a single period, no single quotes) all tags will be ignored as genres. Build the catalog again; if that works, then you need to so some housekeeping on your tags. Review Tagging Tips above.

I can't see my catalog on my Kindle
Because your catalog is formatted as a periodical, it will only be visible on the Home page if you are viewing 'Subscriptions' or 'All My Items'. If you are showing 'Books' or 'Personal Docs' at the top of your Kindle's Home page, your catalog will not be visible on the Home page.

Posting a log
- Click the Jobs: icon in the lower right corner of calibre's main window
- In the 'calibre - jobs' dialog window, click on the most recent (closest to the top) 'Generate catalog' job
- Click the Show job details button
- Select all of the text in the 'Generate catalog' window, and copy it to your clipboard
- Paste that text into your posting in this thread
- Select all of the pasted text, then click the 'eye with the red X through it', aka the 'Spoiler' format button to hide it behind a Spoiler button

Creating a ticket with a bug report or feature request
Go to calibre's project management site to report a bug or create a feature request.

Please post any questions or comments in this thread.

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theducks · 01-25-2010, 10:15 AM

How do you control where(which storage) the Send to Device Automatic chooses to place the (EPUB) Catalog?

My preference is for Separate (from Send To Device) control.
I would like to keep the Index on the Main Storage (Where I also keep the Manual for the device, bus and train schedules), while leaving the Device Library on the SD Card.

Thanks

GRiker · 01-25-2010, 10:44 AM

I believe that it would follow the preferences you have set in 'Set default send to device action' using the small dropdown arrow next to the 'Send to device' icon.

Please create a ticket for a feature request if that's something you feel strongly about.

G

theducks · 01-25-2010, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

I believe that it would follow the preferences you have set in 'Set default send to device action' using the small dropdown arrow next to the 'Send to device' icon.

Please create a ticket for a feature request if that's something you feel strongly about.

G

Not that strongly

There is the Manual mode that works for me.

alecE · 01-25-2010, 04:50 PM

Just wanted to say how much I appreciate the catalogue creation feature - great idea

I'll also put in a ticket to suggest including the series data - nice to have, but by no means essential.

banjomike · 01-25-2010, 08:12 PM

Nice feature.

Is there any way to sort titles within an author?

If I select Authors, go to 'O' and find Peter ODonnell, I then get exactly 100 entries for him, all present and correct, but in a completely random order.

Just noticed that they are also in random order in the Titles section.

EPUB format.

chilady1 · 01-25-2010, 08:43 PM

I am getting a slew of errors trying to generate a MOBI catalog from Calibre. Where can I go for someone to look at the error code being generated to understand what might be preventing me from getting the catalog?

dwanthny · 01-26-2010, 03:47 AM

I tried to create a epub catalog by accepting the defaults and received the following error.

Spoiler:

GRiker · 01-26-2010, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwanthny

I tried to create a epub catalog by accepting the defaults and received the following error.

Fixed in next release.

G

dwanthny · 01-26-2010, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

Fixed in next release.

G

Thanks for the quick reply.

96 posts 96 karma

Don't see that often.

GRiker · 01-26-2010, 06:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chilady1

I am getting a slew of errors trying to generate a MOBI catalog from Calibre. Where can I go for someone to look at the error code being generated to understand what might be preventing me from getting the catalog?

Please post the failure log.

When the 'Failed: Generate catalog' dialog is shown, click the copy button, then paste the results into your posting.

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GRiker · 01-26-2010, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by banjomike

Nice feature.

Is there any way to sort titles within an author?

If I select Authors, go to 'O' and find Peter ODonnell, I then get exactly 100 entries for him, all present and correct, but in a completely random order.

Just noticed that they are also in random order in the Titles section.

EPUB format.

The books should be sorted by title. However, there are some sorting features that may not be apparent:

Leading stop words (The, A, An ...) are ignored

Numbers are translated to words for sort purposes, e.g., '1968' is sorted as 'Nineteen sixty-eight'

Does that explain what you're seeing?

G

banjomike · 01-26-2010, 09:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRiker

The books should be sorted by title. However, there are some sorting features that may not be apparent:

Leading stop words (The, A, An ...) are ignored

Numbers are translated to words for sort purposes, e.g., '1968' is sorted as 'Nineteen sixty-eight'

Does that explain what you're seeing?

G

"may not be apparent", I can't think why you might think that but yes, it does explain it.

BUT, I've added a screen cap to show what it looks like. In my case it makes the catalog confusing.

Is there a way to turn it off and have a straight alphanumeric sort?

GinnyB · 01-26-2010, 09:56 AM

Error Messages - I'm so frustrated!

Spoiler:

GinnyB · 01-26-2010, 09:58 AM

I'm so sorry!!! I didn't mean to copy the WHOLE error message. Pardon me for the long post! That was my first post in the forum. Now I'll get kicked out for being stupid!

01-25-2010, 08:53 AM	#1
GRiker iPaddict Posts: 515 Karma: 1730 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 2, DX, iPad	Creating Catalogs This post introduces calibre's new Catalog feature. Please use this thread for questions and comments. Kindle 1 is not supported. Users have reported that the Kindle for PC app does not use the same font as the Kindle2 and KindleDX, so the check mark for a read book does not display properly in these apps. Implementation history 0.6.35: initial implementation supporting CSV, EPUB, XML for Kindle 2 and DX. 0.6.36: add support for MOBI 0.6.37: add 'Recently Added' section, title sorting option, improved debug diagnostics 0.6.38: 'Titles' and 'Recently Added' sections optional, support for formatting markup in descriptions (<br/>, <b>, <i>), display Series information 0.6.42: add 'Last 30 days' to Recently Added Section, change title display style in Titles Section when book is part of series, various bug fixes and improvements. 0.6.43: add 'Apply' button to Catalog dialog, applying changes to catalog build criteria without initiating build process. Introduce experimental feature 'Recently Read' (Kindle only). If Kindle is connected when initiating catalog build and 'Recently Added' is enabled, bookmarks are scanned and listed in a 'Recently Read' section, including a progress meter. What is the Catalog feature? The catalog feature enables you to export a catalog of selected E-books from your library in one of several formats: CSV, EPUB, MOBI or XML. The default settings are probably fine for you, but if you want more information about how catalog generation works, read on. If you have your output device set to 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' in Preferences\|Conversion\|Page Setup, selecting the MOBI output format takes advantage of the Kindle's TOC feature by creating the catalog in Kindle's periodical format, presenting the content in a structured format similar to a newspaper or magazine. You can use the Kindle 5-way joystick to navigate your catalog. Here's a sample of what a catalog's TOC looks like on a Kindle: How do I use the Catalog feature? Click the small down arrow next to the Convert E-books icon, then select Create catalog of books from the dropdown list, displaying the 'Generate catalog' dialog. The Catalog options tab displays the general options for the catalog: Catalog format allows you to choose the output format for the generated catalog. Catalog title is used as the name of the generated catalog in your calibre library, and as the title of the generated catalog in EPUB and MOBI output formats, and the name of the saved CSV or XML file. The Send catalog to device automatically checkbox indicates that you want calibre to download the generated catalog (enabled for EPUB/MOBI only) to your device upon completion. The second tab in the 'Generate catalog' dialog offers customization control depending upon the selected catalog format: CSV/XML: For these text output formats, you have a choice of which database fields will be saved in the generated catalog file. You will be prompted for a save location when the catalog generation is complete. EPUB/MOBI: For these E-book output formats, you describe how special marker tags are interpreted when generating your catalog. Marker tags are used to tell the catalog builder to mark an E-book as read, to exclude an E-book from generated catalogs, and to add additional notes to a E-book's description page. Don't include this book (default: '~,Catalog') is used to skip an E-book when generating the catalog. Mark this book as read (default: '+') is used to show a book's read/unread status in the generated catalog. Additional note tag prefix (default: '') is used to add a special user note in the generated catalog. Any other tags in your database are interpreted as genre tags. For example, if you use the tags 'Fiction' and 'Nonfiction', your catalog will include two articles in the Genres section - one including all E-books tagged with 'Fiction', the other including all E-books tagged with 'Nonfiction'. E-books without tags will still be included in the catalog's Description, Authors, and Titles sections, but not included in any genre lists. An E-book may have no genre tags, or as many as you want. It is perfectly fine to make a catalog with no genres. The final field on this dialog is used to exclude certain tag patterns that would normally be interpreted as genre tags. Regex pattern describing tags to exclude as genres* is a regular expression ('regex'). The default regex in this field ('\[[\w ]\]') will recognize tags of the form [<tag>] as a special tag indicating the E-book's origin. For example, the tag '[Amazon freebie]' is useful in finding all free Amazon E-books in your collection, but these tags will not be interpreted as genres in the generated catalog output. If you're not a regex hacker, don't worry, just use the default pattern supplied. Here are some tag examples and their meaning, using the default marker tag assignments described above: Tags: Fiction, Suspense, [Amazon freebie] This E-book will be added to the 'Fiction' and 'Suspense' genre lists '[Amazon freebie]' is ignored during catalog generation Tags: ~, Adult This E-book will not be included in the generated catalog. Tags: Science Fiction,Mystery,[Project Gutenberg],+ This E-book will be included in the genre lists 'Science Fiction' and 'Mystery' '[Project Gutenberg]' is ignored during catalog generation '+' means the E-book will be marked as read in various lists within the generated catalog. Tags: Nonfiction,Jeff should read this This E-book will be included in the genre list 'Nonfiction' The note 'Jeff should read this' will be displayed in this E-book's description page. Controlling which E-books are exported to your catalog What you see is what you get: If you want all of your collection exported to your catalog (using the exclusions noted above), remove any search criteria by clearing the Search: field. With a single E-book selected (or no E-books selected), all E-books in your collection will be candidates for export to the generated catalog. If you want only some of your collection exported to the generated catalog, you have two options:  Drag-select the E-books you want exported. With more than one E-book selected, only the selected E-books will be exported. Use the Search: field to filter the displayed E-books. With a single E-book selected (or no E-books selected) in the filtered list, only the displayed E-books will be exported. Implementation Notes MOBI output has only been tested with Kindle 2 and Kindle DX. If you have your output profile set to 'Kindle' or 'Kindle DX' in Preferences\|ConversionPage Setup, and you select 'MOBI' as the output format in the Catalog options tab, the resulting MOBI file will be in the Kindle periodical format, with four sections: Descriptions - full descriptions of each E-book Authors - all included E-books sorted by Author Titles - all included E-books sorted by Title Recently Added - all included E-books sorted in reverse chronological order by date added to your collection Genres - all generated Genres,with individual genres sorted by Author Note: MOBI catalog format available in 0.6.36 and later. Note: 'Recently Added' section available in 0.6.37 and later. All of the catalog functionality is available through calibre's CLI interface. Type 'calibredb catalog --help' for general options Type 'calibredb catalog .[csv\|epub\|mobi\|xml] --help' for options specific to a format Tagging Tips By following a few simple guidelines, your database will be easier to keep organized and the Catalog generation process will run more quickly. Use a simple, consistent scheme for tagging. It's better to have separate Fiction, Romance and Suspense tags than a single Fiction-Romance-Suspense tag. Use the Edit metadata dialog to add/edit tags. Use existing tags whenever possible. Learn to use the bulk metadata editing feature to change tags on groups of books at a time. You can easily preview how your genre groups will be assembled by using the Search feature. Type 'tag:Fiction' in the Search: box to see all books tagged with 'Fiction'. To list books without a particular tag, e.g. 'Fiction', type 'not tag:Fiction'. Take a look at the log generated in the Jobs dialog. It will show you all of the tags in your database, plus those actually used in your generated catalog. If your tags are a complete mess, and you simply want to start over by removing all tags from your database: Highlight a single title in the main window Click Edit meta information or press shortcut key E to open the Edit Meta Information dialog Click the Open Tag Editor icon to the right of the Tags: field If there are any tags in the Applied tags column on the right, select them all and click the 'x' icon to the right of the Applied tags column to move them to the Available tags column on the left. Select all of the tags in the Available tags column by click-dragging through them, or clicking one tag then pressing Cmd/Ctrl-A to select all. Click the trash can icon to the left of the Available tags column to delete the tag names from the database. Click OK to exit the Tag Editor dialog Click OK to exit the Edit Meta Information dialog Press Cmd/Ctrl-A to select all books in your library Click Edit meta information or press E to open the Edit Meta Information dialog In the Remove tags: field, type '' (no quotes) Click OK to remove the tags from the individual books. Poof. Tips for Kindle users* The catalog builder has some special TOC optimizations for Kindle users. To build a Kindle version of your catalog, open the Preferences\|Conversion\|Page Setup dialog, confirm that your Output profile is either Kindle or Kindle DX. To explore your catalog through the Kindle TOC: From the Home screen, move the highlight to your catalog, then toggle right. Move the highlight down to 'Go to Section...', then click to open the Sections List. Highlighting and clicking on a Section name (Descriptions, Authors, Titles, Recently Added, Genres) will take you to that Section. Highlighting and clicking on the number in parentheses (right of the Section) will take you to a high-level overview of that Section in your catalog. Try it. If you end up somewhere you didn't expect to be, just press the Back button on your Kindle to return to the previously displayed page. If You Have Problems Review this thread for possible solutions If someone else has had a similar problem, you may find the solution in this thread. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, please post your problem in this thread. Update to most recent version of calibre Problems that have been reported are usually fixed in the next release of calibre. It's a good policy to stay current with the most recent release. Failure to generate catalog This is most likely caused by some problems in the tags used to generate genres. The quick way to confirm this is to change the regex expression in the EPU/MOBI options tab. The default value of '\[[\w ]\]' ignores tags of the form [tag]. By changing the regex to '.' (that's a single period, no single quotes) all tags will be ignored as genres. Build the catalog again; if that works, then you need to so some housekeeping on your tags. Review Tagging Tips* above. I can't see my catalog on my Kindle Because your catalog is formatted as a periodical, it will only be visible on the Home page if you are viewing 'Subscriptions' or 'All My Items'. If you are showing 'Books' or 'Personal Docs' at the top of your Kindle's Home page, your catalog will not be visible on the Home page. Posting a log Click the Jobs: icon in the lower right corner of calibre's main window In the 'calibre - jobs' dialog window, click on the most recent (closest to the top) 'Generate catalog' job Click the Show job details button Select all of the text in the 'Generate catalog' window, and copy it to your clipboard Paste that text into your posting in this thread Select all of the pasted text, then click the 'eye with the red X through it', aka the 'Spoiler' format button to hide it behind a Spoiler button Creating a ticket with a bug report or feature request Go to calibre's project management site to report a bug or create a feature request. Please post any questions or comments in this thread. G Last edited by GRiker; 06-03-2010 at 02:08 PM.

01-25-2010, 10:15 AM	#2
theducks Wizard Posts: 1,710 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The original Silicon Valley, USA Device: Shiny (nude) Blue Astak PEz	Send to device Automatically question How do you control where(which storage) the Send to Device Automatic chooses to place the (EPUB) Catalog? My preference is for Separate (from Send To Device) control. I would like to keep the Index on the Main Storage (Where I also keep the Manual for the device, bus and train schedules), while leaving the Device Library on the SD Card. Thanks

01-25-2010, 08:12 PM	#6
banjomike Groupie Posts: 172 Karma: 700 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: UK Device: Sony PRS-505 Red, Nintendo DS Lite+DSlibris, ipod touch + Stanza	Nice feature. Is there any way to sort titles within an author? If I select Authors, go to 'O' and find Peter ODonnell, I then get exactly 100 entries for him, all present and correct, but in a completely random order. Just noticed that they are also in random order in the Titles section. EPUB format. Last edited by banjomike; 01-25-2010 at 08:18 PM. Reason: adding new info

01-25-2010, 08:43 PM	#7
chilady1 I devour books! Posts: 177 Karma: 1394 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: K2US, Soon to be owner of K3	Errors in generating catalog I am getting a slew of errors trying to generate a MOBI catalog from Calibre. Where can I go for someone to look at the error code being generated to understand what might be preventing me from getting the catalog?

01-26-2010, 03:47 AM	#8
dwanthny Wizard Posts: 1,539 Karma: 3698 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Sony PRS-505, jetBook-Lite	I tried to create a epub catalog by accepting the defaults and received the following error. Spoiler: ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Generate catalog Generate catalog Catalog_EPUB_MOBI:run path_to_output: c:\docume~1\whanthon\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.6.36_ 4el6sb_catalog_out.epub Output format: epub Book count: 1116 opts: basename: Catalog catalog_title: My Books creator: calibre descriptionClip: 250 exclude_genre: \[[\w ]\] exclude_tags: ~,Catalog fmt: epub log: <calibre.utils.logging.Log object at 0x03797D10> note_tag: output_profile: sony plugin_path: <class 'calibre.library.catalog.EPUB_MOBI'> read_tag: + search_text: None sort_by: None verbose: True CatalogBuilder(): Generating epub for sony 0.00% fetchBooksByTitle() Python function terminated unexpectedly local variable 'result' referenced before assignment (Error Code: 1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "site.py", line 103, in main File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 59, in gui_catalog File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2391, in run File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 734, in buildSources File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 838, in fetchBooksByTitle File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 2287, in generateSortTitle File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 298, in __init__ File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 413, in numberTranslate File "site-packages\calibre\library\catalog.py", line 340, in stringFromInt UnboundLocalError: local variable 'result' referenced before assignment __________________ Good reading! -- Walt -- To paraphrase... There's no crying in baseball MobileRead, Jimmy Dugan Those not susceptible to seizures see my avatar full size here.

01-25-2010, 10:44 AM	#3
GRiker iPaddict Posts: 515 Karma: 1730 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 2, DX, iPad	I believe that it would follow the preferences you have set in 'Set default send to device action' using the small dropdown arrow next to the 'Send to device' icon. Please create a ticket for a feature request if that's something you feel strongly about. G

01-25-2010, 04:50 PM	#5
alecE Addict Posts: 295 Karma: 7724 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: UK canal boat Device: sony prs505 liseuse	Just wanted to say how much I appreciate the catalogue creation feature - great idea I'll also put in a ticket to suggest including the series data - nice to have, but by no means essential.

01-26-2010, 09:58 AM	#15
GinnyB Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle 2	I'm so sorry!!! I didn't mean to copy the WHOLE error message. Pardon me for the long post! That was my first post in the forum. Now I'll get kicked out for being stupid!

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