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jabook · 10-15-2010, 08:50 AM

Thank you for quick replies.

darkforce writes "You can search in specific folder or all books" - that is what interest me. Is it possible to search / just by text in the file name / by regular expressions for file name / or even by looking for some text within all books? Or does one search by text contained in the author / title substrings? How does a reader deals with PDFs that do not have author/title, for instance? I ask because I could not find anything on the topic in the manuals of PB readers.

I have seen calibre (and some other nice tools), but I have no idea how would that help me with the management of the books on the reader (except for tagging everything, but then again some formats [PDF] do not store any tags, right? and maybe tags are not transfer to a reader in general?). I need to have all the books and files (meaning PDF which do not have author/title/tag fields) available on the reader and I need to be able to search them by multiple criteria. Tagging would work, but it is a lot of work and does not work with all files (PDF - correct me if I am wrong).

Further, while I know I can sort the books in the folders, it does not help if there are hundreds of books in each folder. You might ask why not to sort the books (well, it is more about articles in my case) in folders, for example, by author. No chance - many articles have more authors (duplicating) and I would not be able to find a book by anything else (e.g., topic / title).

Thanks a lot for your help. Ja

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Quick summary: need to search files (meaning including books in PDF that cannot store tags etc.) by multiple criteria such as author, year, topic, but only one criterium at the same time

10-15-2010, 08:50 AM	#4
jabook Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	Thank you for quick replies. darkforce writes "You can search in specific folder or all books" - that is what interest me. Is it possible to search / just by text in the file name / by regular expressions for file name / or even by looking for some text within all books? Or does one search by text contained in the author / title substrings? How does a reader deals with PDFs that do not have author/title, for instance? I ask because I could not find anything on the topic in the manuals of PB readers. I have seen calibre (and some other nice tools), but I have no idea how would that help me with the management of the books on the reader (except for tagging everything, but then again some formats [PDF] do not store any tags, right? and maybe tags are not transfer to a reader in general?). I need to have all the books and files (meaning PDF which do not have author/title/tag fields) available on the reader and I need to be able to search them by multiple criteria. Tagging would work, but it is a lot of work and does not work with all files (PDF - correct me if I am wrong). Further, while I know I can sort the books in the folders, it does not help if there are hundreds of books in each folder. You might ask why not to sort the books (well, it is more about articles in my case) in folders, for example, by author. No chance - many articles have more authors (duplicating) and I would not be able to find a book by anything else (e.g., topic / title). Thanks a lot for your help. Ja --- Quick summary: need to search files (meaning including books in PDF that cannot store tags etc.) by multiple criteria such as author, year, topic, but only one criterium at the same time Last edited by jabook; 10-15-2010 at 09:14 AM.