04-06-2012, 05:11 PM | #271 |
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If you're trying to sort by author LN FN shouldn't your template contain
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04-06-2012, 10:50 PM | #272 |
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If I did author_sort, wouldn't that mean it would show up like
Black, Holly instead of Holly Black? All of the rest of it (630ish books) is in Alpha order by last name and read as FN LN, wouldn't it mean there's some sort of error either with how calibre is communicating with the nook, or with those particular books that are out of order? Last edited by PepSnick; 04-07-2012 at 09:34 AM. |
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I'm a Sony user rather than Nook so I'm not sure of its sorting capabilities. My Sonys will only sort by LN FN if the author display is LN FN. If you're getting a mixture of both on the Nook then perhaps you should choose 2 Nook books - a correct one and an incorrect one - then look at the Edit Metadata window for each in Calibre particularly the author_sort box and see if there is a problem there.
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I do something very similar on my PRS-950 and PRS-505, but I use author_sort instead of author. In addition to the line you have for Destination field: authors in your plugboard, I add the following extra line in the plugboard: Source Template: {author_sort}{series:|[|}{series_index:0>2s|(|)]} Destination Field: title_sort This should allow you to sort by title and get what you want without changing the title. Quote:
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I don't know .. these titles always worked before. But I keep getting told that it's not a bug, so there's gotta be something more going on. I just don't know how to check into it further besides the standard metadata, which I am positive is correct.
That template, would that make it where the authors are still sorted in correct order? The only reason I don't want to do Author sort is because I think that will make it show up LN, FN. I might just have to lose the plugboard period .. but I can try asking people on the nook board in this forum, as well as the actual nook forum and see if anybody has experienced this issue. I got told it's not the plugboard because the format was changed correctly, but that it must be something with my device .. but before i did the plugboard, my device was working correctly. Maybe my device just doesn't *like* the plugboard lol, like it's not meant to sort that way so it's refusing to. It just sucks that MOST books do sort how I want them to and how i expected them to, and just a very small chunk didn't. Sorry, mini rant lol. kinda frustrating. |
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Some more 'possibilities'...
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As for your second possibility, I'm afraid i don't understand because I'm not sure what the T1 is. If you could explain that, then i'll look into what you are saying and see if that is it (sorry for being a pest!). As for the prefs, no I haven't looked - I will do that first! As soon as i write this message i'll sign onto my laptop and see what is going on there. I have tried it in the title section, I just didn't like how it looked aesthetically, lol. If I can't figure this out, that's what i'll be going with. It just doesn't look as nice to me, it makes it look cluttered and sometimes the title is too long so I have to do a lot of editing to make it work right. PS, thank you so much for all of your help. I really, really appreciate it. I sent in a bug report to make sure it wasn't that, and I wrote this: ---- To expand on this further and give an example, this is what it looks like when it's correct (fake titles and authors): Cat Jan Ball [Beautiful Art (01)] Dog Jan Ball [Beautiful Art (03)] Fish Jan Ball [Beautiful Art (02)] Gerbil Ben Doom [Candid (01)] But the ones that are incorrect do it like this: Gerbil Ben Doom [Candid (01)] Cat Jan Ball [Beautiful Art (01)] Fish Jan Ball [Beautiful Art (02)] Dog Jan Ball [Beautiful Art (03)] Notice that one the ones that are correct, it sorts by last name in terms of authors, and then alphabetically by title, and the series and number is jumbled (which is the right way to do it and what I wanted). However, in the incorrect section, it sorts by first name, but also by the number of the series. --- I thought I would paste that here, too, in case somebody else wants to chime in. I think it explains it a little better than I have been explaining it. |
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Okay, in the Prefs > Plugins > Nook thing, this is all I see:
Available formats and their order, 3 are checked -- Epub, pdb, pdf. read metadata from files on device is checked. use sub directories is checked. Under saved template it's Code:
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Okay so .. tried the source code in title_sort, had no change.
Tried author_sort in place of authors in the author field, and all it did was change it to LN, FN but kept it in the same place and up top .. so, it's something else. Is there a way to look more into the metadata, see if maybe the sorting is odd in it or something? I have no idea .... --- Okay, I opened the opf files in wordpad, I used the same author and series, a book that is in order and a book that isn't, and i see no differences there. I'm THIS ready to just give up ... Last edited by PepSnick; 04-08-2012 at 02:43 PM. |
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I will give it a shot and let you know!
I also had a thought of maybe just deleting all books from my device and reuploading them all back on, and see if it changes which ones error and which ones don't. I figure I have nothing to lose except time. |
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You said previously that the Nook device interface plugin 'had read metadata from files on device is checked'. If so then your pre-plugin books will be using pre-plugin metadata, I would think. Well, it's always an option. Testing it out first on a single series (as per my prev post) would indicate how successful that is likely to be. Last edited by jackie_w; 04-08-2012 at 05:41 PM. |
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I tried both, the same books still have the error.
It's true that unless I sent all books to my nook again, they wouldnt have the plugboard, but I had already done that when I first started using the plugboard. It was when I finished my entire library that these books went out of order .. they weren't out of order before, and they weren't out of order when the plugboard was first applied .. just when I finished uploading the whole library. It doesn't make an ounce of sense to me, so I probably just can't do it how I want to .. getting a bit discouraged. Will most likely have to do it through the title, or not at all if I can't take how it looks, lol. Last edited by PepSnick; 04-08-2012 at 06:26 PM. |
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