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Unlike M/M Romance, which usually has a tag like "Gay," "Gay & Lesbian" or "Gay Fiction" or "LGBT" or something, M/F romance will generally just have "Romance." But since M/M Romance ALSO often has "romance", I can't use that as a tag for sorting by genre. Unless there's a way to find the ones tagged "romance" and then filter the ones with the various M/M sort of tags out from the ones without any such distinguishing tags. I could always separate M/M Romance into it's own library and use a different template for it, but by that logic, I could side-step ALL of this by sorting these into different libraries, and then what would we do for fun? |
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I have a rather large library. |
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It follows a general concept of switch(pattern,value,else_if_pattern,value,else_if_pattern,value,else_value) Quote:
And a very good memory. Last edited by eschwartz; 01-06-2014 at 02:06 AM. |
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Edit: Now I remember: I track secondary genres because keyword search results can't be listed in a catalog, keywords in Comments can't be searched quickly in calibre large library and can't be included in a simple way (not needing constant maintenance) in a metadata plugboard. Last edited by unboggling; 01-06-2014 at 02:36 PM. Reason: added last sentence 1st paragraph, and 2nd paragraph. |
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I hate the search function on the Kindle--a lot of the time if I'm searching for a specific title or author, I can't find it because something in the metadata subtly differs from what I'm searching for. A good example of this is when a book is written by two authors. You have to search by the one listed first, and a LOT of authors in my genre co-write. Then, also, a lot of these are actually books I haven't read yet that I've received from other authors in my genre or that I've bought to catch up with the various authors in my genre (so I can be conversant with my peers about their books, or just to keep an eye on what is going on in the genre.) So a lot of the time, choosing a book to read involves going down a list of authors I'm not actually all that familiar with, doing an eenie-meenie-miney-mo and saying, "I'll read THIS one!" Unless I have them sorted into easily digestible chunks, I would be scrolling endlessly though page after page after page (1800 books and they're listed at, what, 8 titles per page in list view?) That's a lot of paging forward. Last edited by ACGAuthor; 01-06-2014 at 02:21 AM. |
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I don't do collections on devices at all, for similar reasons you mentioned. Lately in metadata plugboard I've been appending series, series index, and #genres to author_sort to show in Sony PRS-T2 list. That [edit: along with title] is really all I need on the device. Why do collections on devices when everything is already organized in calibre? Makes more sense to me to do all the searching in calibre, not on device. Speaking of simplifying, not doing collections at all is simple. Last edited by unboggling; 01-06-2014 at 12:42 PM. |
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Yup. That's what I do. Load a few books at a time to device then remove them after reading them before loading any more books. The only time I might load more than a few is just before a trip out of town, but that isn't really necessary. While traveling, from content server I can download anything to device from calibre library at home. Last edited by unboggling; 01-06-2014 at 02:50 AM. |
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Another alternative is using Dropbox. You can access books through Dropbox from device, if you can install mobile version of Dropbox on device. Not sure about Kindle PW. And there are other alternatives you can read about in Related Tools, Calibre Sub-Forum. See stickies at top for specific tools. But since we are digressing off the thread topic, I'll shut up now. Last edited by unboggling; 01-06-2014 at 03:17 AM. |
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One of the reasons I still monitor this thread, long after Chaley provided me with the solution that I use to organize my Kindle books, is because of the enthusiasm and ideas that it is bringing forth. Particularly of late ESchwartz. Thank you for proving even the best solution can be improved upon.
Frankly, what little I have left on my desire list (some way to optionally cut off any incoming book's title at the first bracket/brace/parenthesis or colon) is to handle those tags a lot better as I transition them into my few primary tags (#tagsgm). As described earlier, I have saved searches that looks for uncategorized books and looks for terms inside tags. I then select all and edit in the tag category I believe them all to be. Running through my set of tagsGM takes me five minutes. But it leaves a LOT of books uncategorized, which I then manually assess and assign. THAT takes the time. The issue is handling the tags terms. Biographies is different from Biographies & Memoirs is different from Biographies And Memoirs. And so on. I have the main terms covered. Fine-tuning it has proven beyond my capabilities and/or my time allowances. Still, this thread has re-invigorated that desire and I am more actively interested. I like the idea of a program that digests tags sets and produces a value in a created column. In delphi, I'd just split the tags into a stringlist, all caps. Then I would search each item for whether pos(searchterm, item.text) > 0 and then edit the created column for the pre-determined value. I'd be able to nest the searches in the order I WANT, so that Mysteries and Thrillers falls into the Mystery category rather than the Thriller category, no matter where that individual tag lands in the tag list. There's also the problem of Science Fiction Mysteries (which I would prefer to be in SF, rather than Mystery) having to be assigned in such a way (either by going first or last, depending on the methodology), so that I get the assignment I desire. But Python is not Delphi and my knowledge is ... lacking. Doing the above, splitting the tag set, capitalizing the results and then comparing it to my tagsGM list, sub-term by sub-term is beyond me. But I'm watching your examples, playing with your programs. So keep up the work. Please. You'll be helping more than ACGAuthor. Thanks. |
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I should also mention one other wrinkle that would crop up. Sports Biographies. I TEND to manually categorize them as Sports, but that really didn't work all that well in practice. So, now they are BSports, leaving me with Bios that are not sports, and Sports for books that aren't Bios. The issue is writing that search. And thus far, I have failed due to the lack of understanding of negation in the search line.
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