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Originally Posted by silverraven
I think it is going to work! I had to change author to author_sort because mom gets the Harlequin Presents every month, and I need them all to be under one folder, not under different ones according to author(sooo many different authors!!). So I changed the author sort on all the Harlequins to reflect the month: Harlequin Presents Nov 2010 to keep them all together under H. Easier for her to find them that way.
OK, so when I have to put books on my neighbors Sony 600 (she and mom share the Harlequins), do I need to put this anywhere different for her device, and will it work for the Sony? I know they have collections, and I seem to remember reading that they go by Series to set up Collections, but I would love to have hers under A B C too. It just makes the whole reader so much neater.
Thanks again for your help, you have saved me hours of headache!
S
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Although I am pleased that you found a way that works, my suspicion is that you are doing things the hard way.
From what I understand, for your mom's Aztek EZ, you want the file names (folder names) to be something like HP Nov 2010/Title. I don't know how the Aztek menus work or where it gets its data, so you might want this in book metadata, but that isn't a problem.
For your neighbor, you want a set of collections. Unfortunately, your example of A B C doesn't match what you were talking about for your mom, so I am not sure what the A B C means.
I think that the best way to do this is to create a custom text column (single value, not tags-like). Doing it this way preserves author_sort for what it is meant for, and increases the flexibility you have when sending books to your device.
To be specific, create the column. For illustration, lets call this new column '#sortby'. Put the information in the #sortby that you want to sort on, in your example "Harlequin Presents Nov 2010".
For the Aztek, set the save template to something like
With this template, when you send the books to the device they will be put into folders named by the information in #sortby. For example, if the Harlequin Presents Nov 2010 set includes the title The Silken Spy, then the book would be stored in
Code:
Harlequin_Presents_Nov_2010/The_Silken_Spy.epub
There are several other options, such as using plugboards if the Aztek gets its information from book metadata.
For the Sony, you have several choices. The easiest is to add #sortby to the list of fields from which collections are made. If you do this (in preferences -> plugins -> device plugins -> Sony), then calibre will make a collection for each value in #sortby, and put the books in the collection by title. Using the same example, you would have a collection named Harlequin Presents Nov 2010, with the title The Silken Spy inside that collection.
I won't go into the other choices, because in the end I am not sure what you really want to do.