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01-29-2011, 11:49 AM | #63 | |
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I'll give some thought to adding an include only certain tags option along with the ignore certain tags option. |
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01-29-2011, 01:32 PM | #64 | |
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I know I'm repeating myself here, but your plugin is amazing. Nearly every solution prior to this had problems, usually with Amazon-embedded ASINS. Yours does not have this issue. It didn't take as long as I thought it would to wrangle the Active Content and dictionaries after restarting the Kindle. If you can find a way to work with them, great, but if not, it's not as much of a problem as I expected it to be. Looks like many of the problems users are running into so far are syntax issues in the tweaks, which is common. I did so myself the second test run, but I spotted the problem immediately. It's so easy to leave out a comma, or miss a period in a pattern entry. The thing is, how often do most people change the way they set up their collections? I'm not a good example, because I tend to tweak my organizational systems till they scream; most people probably find a system they like and stick with it. Once they get it working properly, they're done for a while. While I was initially in favor of a GUI, I now prefer the flexibility of the tweak method instead, because I've started to fully appreciate the ability to use user-created columns and the "ignore" options. It allows a rather extensive configuration to be created that would be hard to easily capture in a GUI interface. I didn't really "get it" until I started playing with it. Just a thought - Since some people would probably prefer a GUI, perhaps two versions? A "tweak" version for power users and a GUI version with basic options for those who prefer it - the common "author, tag, series" options with minimums, perhaps. |
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01-29-2011, 02:57 PM | #66 | |
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Your plugin works great! I had no problem tweaking the settings to only create collections for series or authors with 3 or more books in them. Thank you, thank you, thank you! |
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01-29-2011, 03:19 PM | #67 | |
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I know you prefer not to use custom columns, but if you did add a custom "genre" column, you could then filter your list to the books already containing "Romance" tag, for example, and edit the custom metadata for all of those in one go. Still tedious, but at least you'd be working with groups of books rather than individual books. My suggestions may be no help at all, and you may have already considered all of this, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. |
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01-29-2011, 04:39 PM | #68 | |
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˫Star Wars 1- The Phantom Menace --- series name+ ˫Star Wars 2- Attack of the Clones ----- series number+ ˫Star Wars 3- Revenge of the Sith ------ book title = Titles of books in the collections Kindle displays only the book title and author of series are not consecutive, need sorting books within collections by series and series number . To do this, add to the title of a book series title with a number. Sorry for my English writing through a translator. |
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01-29-2011, 07:30 PM | #69 |
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I just want to add my thanks. This Plug-in has been brilliant, and the tweaks work perfectly, allowing me to make the exact collections I want. As I have over 900 novels on the kindle this has saved me alot of time. Thanks again
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01-29-2011, 10:15 PM | #70 | |
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This is what I'm currently using in combo with an plugboard for placing series info in a book title. ################################################ # Create Kindle Collections Plugin tweaks # # Calibre column names to include in collections, text to prepend for sorting, and # minimum number of books needed for a column before creating a collection create_kindle_collections_usecolumns = { "tags": [ "__", 1 ], "series": [ "_", 2 ], "author_sort": [ "", 1 ], "read_status": ["___", 1] } create_kindle_collections_ignore = [ "No-Col.*" ] ################################################## ## I eliminated the space as it confused my k3 which would no longer do the go to beginning of "k" or "s" ... trick if some of the files were - title rather than -title when in title mode. I also chose to use characters that would sort in the same order whether I was creating a collection for a kindle with firmware 2.5 or 3.0 as I had previously discovered that they didn't prioritize special characters the same. The minute plus for the collection manager to run & the several minutes for the kindle to re-start are nothing compared to manually creating collections. I'm quite content with making changes using tweaks rather than a gui, but that's just me. Thanks so much for this plugin! |
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01-30-2011, 04:06 AM | #71 | |
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See this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=118563 - I think what you want is the first example. |
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I see you used "_" and "__" - I originally had this and wasn't sure about the indents. Maybe I'll add it as an example, and also remove the spaces from examples since they're easy for people to add in and not easy to see onscreen. Quote:
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01-30-2011, 01:19 PM | #74 |
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This is an awesome tool, thanks very much for this. AFAIK, the previous GUI tools only ran on windows, and my collections were simply not important enough to me to fire up my vm on my Mac I was able to get my series into collections successfully (I commented it out below 'cos I'm trying to work on the samples), but I have had no luck with my custom columns. Like others have mentioned, I have way too many tags to create collections based that way, so I'm trying to create custom columns for the tags I care about. For example, I have a tag for "sample", so I created a text based custom column, that I set to "sample", if a book had that tag. My tweaks are copied & pasted below. If I comment out all but the "sample" column, I get an error that no collections were created. I'm sure I'm missing something stupid, but I'm not seeing it. Code:
################################################ # Create Kindle Collections Plugin tweaks # # Calibre column names to include in collections, text to prepend for sorting, and # minimum number of books needed for a column before creating a collection create_kindle_collections_usecolumns = { # "tags": [ "- ", 1 ], # "series": [ "_ ", 1 ], "sample": [ "~ ", 1 ], # "authors": [ "~ ", 1 ] } # Collection names or patterns to ignore (e.g. [ "ignorethis", ".*Ignore.*" ] create_kindle_collections_ignore = [ ] #################################################### |
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I have created a custom column:
Look Up: collections Column Heading: In Collection Column Type: text, with a fixed set of permitted values Values: To Be Read,Author: Christine Feehan, etc. Tweek ################################################ # Create Kindle Collections Plugin tweaks # # Calibre column names to include in collections, text to prepend for sorting, and # minimum number of books needed for a column before creating a collection create_kindle_collections_usecolumns = { "collections": [ "- ", 1 ] } ################################################## ## Hope this helps. |
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