DR1000 How to show book title instead of name

friflaj · 09-16-2011, 07:20 AM

Is it possible to have the books be listed by the title that's in the PDF instead of the filename. I could go about renaming them all, of course, but the metadata is already in the PDFs.

Mackx · 09-16-2011, 08:48 AM

The Books-view shows the title that is in the pdf-file, once the file is viewed/opened. If the document is never opened it will show the filename. The SDCard-view keeps on displaying the filename (if I am not mistaken).

rvs · 09-16-2011, 01:08 PM

(The following does not apply to firmware versions 1.x)

Newly added books: Go to Settings -> Advanced Settings and check "Enable thumbnail generation". This will create a thumbnail and read title and author for every book that's added to the DR.

To do this for books already on the device: backup then delete global.db (on the root of the SD-card) and do the above. The next index could take a very long time.

As Mackx pointed out, in the SD-card view books are always shown by filename. One way to bypass this is to access the SD-card through shortcuts. You can create shortcuts (via the menu) for every directory in the root of the SD-card (Books, News, etc) and access the SD-card that way.

09-16-2011, 07:20 AM	#1
friflaj Member Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Irex 1000S	How to show book title instead of name Is it possible to have the books be listed by the title that's in the PDF instead of the filename. I could go about renaming them all, of course, but the metadata is already in the PDFs.

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09-16-2011, 08:48 AM	#2
Mackx Guru Posts: 999 Karma: 19985 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Netherlands Device: iRex DR1000S	The Books-view shows the title that is in the pdf-file, once the file is viewed/opened. If the document is never opened it will show the filename. The SDCard-view keeps on displaying the filename (if I am not mistaken).

09-16-2011, 01:08 PM	#3
rvs Groupie Posts: 181 Karma: 364 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: DR1000s, Hanlin V5	(The following does not apply to firmware versions 1.x) Newly added books: Go to Settings -> Advanced Settings and check "Enable thumbnail generation". This will create a thumbnail and read title and author for every book that's added to the DR. To do this for books already on the device: backup then delete global.db (on the root of the SD-card) and do the above. The next index could take a very long time. As Mackx pointed out, in the SD-card view books are always shown by filename. One way to bypass this is to access the SD-card through shortcuts. You can create shortcuts (via the menu) for every directory in the root of the SD-card (Books, News, etc) and access the SD-card that way.

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