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Okay, here's a list of all the tags in Calibre at present that would get categorized automatically into the SFF/UF/PNR Genre:
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Anything wrong with doing both? It's even more accurate, in the sense that they ARE conformant to the tag specification.
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The only thing wrong with it is that it would make the "misc" authors collections much bigger and more cluttered, so it would take longer to browse. Instead of a collection with, say, 100 books in it, I'd have one with 150 or more. I have about 30 "special" authors, some of whom have 20 or more books. |
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Ideally, when this is all said and done, I will know how to edit the list at will if need be if I find something is missing or needs to be changed. |
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For that list alone, the following would work:
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{tags:switch(Dragons,SFF/UF/PNR,Dwarves,SFF/UF/PNR,dystopian,SFF/UF/PNR,elves,SFF/UF/PNR,faeries,SFF/UF/PNR,Fairy Tales,SFF/UF/PNR,Fantasy,SFF/UF/PNR,Fantasy & Magic,SFF/UF/PNR,futuristic,SFF/UF/PNR,Gods,SFF/UF/PNR,Hard Science Fiction,SFF/UF/PNR,Hobbits,SFF/UF/PNR,Horror,SFF/UF/PNR,Horror Tales,SFF/UF/PNR,magic,SFF/UF/PNR,Magic & Wizards,SFF/UF/PNR,orcs,SFF/UF/PNR,paranormal,SFF/UF/PNR,psychic ability,SFF/UF/PNR,Science Fiction,SFF/UF/PNR,Sci Fi,SFF/UF/PNR,sci-fi,SFF/UF/PNR,Science Fiction & Fantasy,SFF/UF/PNR,shifters,SFF/UF/PNR,Space Opera,SFF/UF/PNR,Star Trek,SFF/UF/PNR,Urban Fantasy,SFF/UF/PNR,Vampires,SFF/UF/PNR,Witches & Wizards,SFF/UF/PNR,zombies,SFF/UF/PNR,)} If tag exists, #collection will be equal to "SFF/UF/PNR", if not, the last field is blank (see how it ends in a "," and nothingness follows the ","?) so no value will be used from this template chunk. Note also that it will be satisfied with finding the first tag, if there are multiple matching tags ONLY the first one in the switch() list will be used. |
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Also, try to consolidate tags, it makes things simpler both here and in general.
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To me, it seems like that list of tags/genres mixes higher level genres (which I call primary) with lower level genres (which I call secondary, because they are not really hierarchic children of the primary).
In my own genre scheme, these are primary: science fiction, fantasy (not urban), urban fantasy, paranormal, horror. Some people consider all of those speculative fiction, but that is such a broad category that I don't find it useful. Magic, for example, can apply to any of the primary genres I mentioned (except arguably science fiction), which is why I consider magic secondary. |
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LOL, yeah, I know. I'm being lazy. Well, not really, but definitely looking to simplify the process. I think I was basically looking for a way that would require the bare minimum of housekeeping. Because right now, adding a batch of books to my library, cataloging them properly so that they will be added to the correct collections, and sideloading them to my PW can take quite a while. Of course, I'll still need to go through and double check any automated process anyway because there will always be books that the filter misses because they have some wacky random tag that isn't on the list, or no tags at all, or or or.
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Family-Friendly (Childrens or Young Adult type stuff) M/F Romance M/M Romance SFF/UF/PNR If I made the top-tier genres any more specific, then I'd have many more top tiers than I really want. Within a Top Tier, I might have collections for a specific author, a specific series, or a specific tag (eg. Western Romance, Historical Romance, Paranormal Romance.) Or, as eschwartz and I were discussing, in the genre where I have way too many authors to keep track of, I might also have collections for authors by alphabetical groupings. |
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Not knocking it. Different strokes. I find this discussion between you and eschwartz quite interesting. |
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BTW, I created that template by opening the text editor, copying your list, and adding ",SFF/UF/PNR," to the end of each line. Then I did a search and replace for "\n" replaced by "" to remove line breaks. Nice and fast. You might have to use "\r\n" on a windows computer to match a line break, though. Mechanizing stuff is fun. |
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No, but seriously, I think we both realize this. The point here is that getting the program to do the work for us is a challenge and a puzzle. Well, I'm presenting the challenge, eschwartz is solving it. It's fun! |
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I know what genre each book is, and I don't care about it either; I choose based on series. Last edited by eschwartz; 01-06-2014 at 01:54 AM. |
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