Content Keeping books in order.

[ErikaGC]

I have a kindle keyboard, I use Calibre to keep my books nicely organized and such, but I can't keep them in order on the Kindle.
I have all the books organized in collections, but what I mean is keeping the series books in order, since I don't want to have to keep checking what book is next when I am on the go.
Is there any way I can organize the books?
Thanks for the help.

[AnemicOak]

IIRC you can use a plugboard to add the series info to the book title when it's transferred to the device, provided the books are DRM free.

[howyoudoin]

I rename the books in Calibre in order - "01 Philosophers Scone", "02 Chamber of Cigarettes" etc.

The Kindle doesn't read the series book # metadata, so as far as I know, this is the simplest solution.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

I rename the books in Calibre in order - "01 Philosophers Scone", "02 Chamber of Cigarettes" etc.

The Kindle doesn't read the series book # metadata, so as far as I know, this is the simplest solution.

You can automate this process in Calibre. As the previous poster said, you can use a Plugboard to automatically prefix the series name and number within the series to the title. Works beautifully, and it's a heck of a lot easier than editing your titles manually.

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by HarryT

You can automate this process in Calibre. As the previous poster said, you can use a Plugboard to automatically prefix the series name and number within the series to the title. Works beautifully, and it's a heck of a lot easier than editing your titles manually.

Thanks. I had no idea. Would it be possible to prefix just the book # (without the series name) to the titles?

[Synamon]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

Thanks. I had no idea. Would it be possible to prefix just the book # (without the series name) to the titles?

I haven't tried it, but you can probably omit [series] from the suggested templates from the plugboard thread to only add series index to the titles.

[JoeD]

I have the following set as the source template

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

with "title" as the destination field.

However, if you don't want the series name as a prefix, omit it as well as the - that would be used as the series - index separator, e.g

{series_index:0>2s|| - }{title}

That will give you

01 - Name of Book

for books that are part of a series, or just

Name of Book

for the rest.

[hrairoorah]

Originally Posted by JoeD

I have the following set as the source template

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

with "title" as the destination field.

However, if you don't want the series name as a prefix, omit it as well as the - that would be used as the series - index separator, e.g

{series_index:0>2s|| - }{title}

That will give you

01 - Name of Book

for books that are part of a series, or just

Name of Book

for the rest.

Is there a tut or set of instructions on exactly how to do this. I too have been manually adding 01, 02, 03 to my titles as I go. I should would like to be able to automate this.

[alansplace]

Kindle uses the publication date as a secondary sort field. So within an author's group of books (sorting by author) it puts them in order of publication date, most recent first, etc... What I do is I modify the publication date to bogus dates in order to reverse the order so that book 1 of a series is first. I hope that's clear.

[RainingLemur]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Kindle uses the publication date as a secondary sort field. So within an author's group of books (sorting by author) it puts them in order of publication date, most recent first, etc... What I do is I modify the publication date to bogus dates in order to reverse the order so that book 1 of a series is first. I hope that's clear.

That's a nifty little factoid I wasn't aware of. I'd used some of the other tricks (plugboard, changing titles, etc...), but never knew that the publication date had anything to do with sort order.