02-22-2011, 09:43 AM | #1 |
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Is there anyway to download Genre? In addition to tags.
I want to organize my library (and subsequent Kindle collection) by Genre, but I also want to use Tags. Tags are numerous and I will use them to search, but I only want like 10-20 genres this way I can see them all on 2-3 pages on my Kindle. But I don't see any Genres downloaded with Metadata. I've added some other peoples' libraries and see that some books have Genres. Are these all manually added or is there a way to download them too?
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02-22-2011, 10:14 AM | #2 |
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The genre field is a custom column added to the library. The metadata download plugins can only populate the default metadata fields, you'll have to populate custom fields manually.
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02-22-2011, 12:43 PM | #3 |
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So, the fact that it is there already, means the person I got the library from, did some manual labor? Man, that sucks. I don't know if I have the time, patience or motivation to do that... Is there a way to maybe limit the number of tags. I can live without a ton of tags, if I can download say the most important or relevant tag for a book I could then use it as a genre. Or is there a source that only has a couple tags, Google (i think it is) gets like 20 per book...
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02-22-2011, 12:47 PM | #4 |
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Yeah, the genre field was filled by whomever you got the library from. I don't know of any way to limit the number of tags downloaded.
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02-22-2011, 12:52 PM | #5 |
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Thanks... I will ponder this dilemma for a bit...
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02-22-2011, 07:18 PM | #6 |
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I turned off downloading tags in Preferences - Plugins - Metadata download plugins. Customize each plugin and uncheck download tags. I then manually add a few tags (bulk metadata edit Window works great) to suit my purpose.
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02-22-2011, 08:39 PM | #7 |
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Thanks for the idea.
Can you post a list of the tags you use, I will use the basic Dewey decimal system subjects if I don't figure out something better. |
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If you're going to do this manually you might want to continue downloading tags to help with searching and just use the existing Genre custom column for finer sorting. Good Luck. |
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02-22-2011, 11:10 PM | #9 |
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Yeah, I may do that, but there are too many tags to be useful sometimes. I have to test the different sources (Metadata Download Plugins) what do you recommend Amazon, Google, ISBNDB or Goodreads?
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