Wondering about Shelves and calibre

PeterT · 10-14-2012, 04:16 PM

I have one ongoing "mystery" with shelves and am curious if others see this.

I just did a reset of my Touch, got the 2.0.0 update etc, and have reloaded a few books onto it.

I have calibre set to use both a custom column and to base shelves on the series name, and currently I have a plugboard to just add the series_index before the book's title; for series I am more likely to find them via shelf as opposed to via the main listing of books.

When I unplug and then reattach the Kobo to the PC, and take a look on the device view, I see the books correctly on the shelves I placed them, but I also see them on shelves "P", "T", "S", "J", "B", "5" etc; many books seem to be flagged as being on a shelf that is the first character of the book's title. But... to make it stranger, this does not happen to ALL books.

Anyone else seeing anything like this?

*NOTE*: I realize I am using a non default in the sending books to devices option for the save template. I currently have

Code:

{author_sort}/{series}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title}

. Maybe I should try with the default

Code:

{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

PeterT · 10-14-2012, 04:55 PM

Well... after doing that AND ensuring I had the same settings in the KoboTouch driver (ie location

Code:

{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

) all seems fine.

davidfor · 10-14-2012, 06:43 PM

Peter,

That was the problem you saw during the testing of my updated driver. I fixed it at first by not looking at the files. I had to put that back in to sync in certain circumstances and didn't revisit this problem. This is happening in code the driver calls, so I need to talk to Kovid about it.

David

PeterT · 10-14-2012, 07:50 PM

No worries David. Reverting to more standard settings seems to help.

10-14-2012, 04:16 PM	#1
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,168 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	Wondering about Shelves and calibre I have one ongoing "mystery" with shelves and am curious if others see this. I just did a reset of my Touch, got the 2.0.0 update etc, and have reloaded a few books onto it. I have calibre set to use both a custom column and to base shelves on the series name, and currently I have a plugboard to just add the series_index before the book's title; for series I am more likely to find them via shelf as opposed to via the main listing of books. When I unplug and then reattach the Kobo to the PC, and take a look on the device view, I see the books correctly on the shelves I placed them, but I also see them on shelves "P", "T", "S", "J", "B", "5" etc; many books seem to be flagged as being on a shelf that is the first character of the book's title. But... to make it stranger, this does not happen to ALL books. Anyone else seeing anything like this? NOTE: I realize I am using a non default in the sending books to devices option for the save template. I currently have Code: {author_sort}/{series}{series_index:0>2s\| - \| - }{title} . Maybe I should try with the default Code: {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} Last edited by PeterT; 10-14-2012 at 04:18 PM.

10-14-2012, 04:55 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,168 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	Well... after doing that AND ensuring I had the same settings in the KoboTouch driver (ie location Code: {author_sort}/{title} - {authors} ) all seems fine.

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10-14-2012, 06:43 PM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Peter, That was the problem you saw during the testing of my updated driver. I fixed it at first by not looking at the files. I had to put that back in to sync in certain circumstances and didn't revisit this problem. This is happening in code the driver calls, so I need to talk to Kovid about it. David

10-14-2012, 07:50 PM	#4
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,168 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	No worries David. Reverting to more standard settings seems to help.

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