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brewjono · 11-21-2010, 04:52 AM

NeoMorph,

Have a look at this link from the Calibre forum

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=series+order

In it you will see how to use Calibre plugboards to do this for you automatically.

I had the same problem but setup the plugboard and now when I send a book to my K3 it gives it the series name, series number and title with an abbreviated author name using initial and surname. (I specifically requested the shortened author name because the K3 can only display 2 lines of text per book entry and with the long series name, # and title and the authors full name it became too long. Initial and surname works well)

example of how it appears on my K3

Harry Bosch - 16 - The Reversal M Connelly
Maximum Ride - 04 - The Final Warning J Patterson
Twice Shy D Francis

NB: By using the templates provided in the above link you can see that if the book does not belong to a series it doesn't get numbered, as per the Dick Francis novel.

Originally I setup my collections using the Series name and then dropped that series in it. So far Michael Connelly I had 3 Collections setup, 1 for each series I was reading.

Once I was able to setup the title names as above I then used KCM to tidy things up. As I have the common complaint of not being able to select more than 1 file at a time using KCM I followed another posters advice and jsut used the author name.

I went in and removed all my collections and then I just dragged the entire left hand column into the right hand column. This made 1 collection per author and solved the dragging and dropping of individual files. In one click and drag I established 30 collections, by author, containing over 700 books, that once opened had each series separated off.

Hope this helps,

Brewjono.

11-21-2010, 04:52 AM	#299
brewjono Zealot Posts: 106 Karma: 501816 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Australia Device: K3, K4, KPW	NeoMorph, Have a look at this link from the Calibre forum https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...t=series+order In it you will see how to use Calibre plugboards to do this for you automatically. I had the same problem but setup the plugboard and now when I send a book to my K3 it gives it the series name, series number and title with an abbreviated author name using initial and surname. (I specifically requested the shortened author name because the K3 can only display 2 lines of text per book entry and with the long series name, # and title and the authors full name it became too long. Initial and surname works well) example of how it appears on my K3 Harry Bosch - 16 - The Reversal M Connelly Maximum Ride - 04 - The Final Warning J Patterson Twice Shy D Francis NB: By using the templates provided in the above link you can see that if the book does not belong to a series it doesn't get numbered, as per the Dick Francis novel. Originally I setup my collections using the Series name and then dropped that series in it. So far Michael Connelly I had 3 Collections setup, 1 for each series I was reading. Once I was able to setup the title names as above I then used KCM to tidy things up. As I have the common complaint of not being able to select more than 1 file at a time using KCM I followed another posters advice and jsut used the author name. I went in and removed all my collections and then I just dragged the entire left hand column into the right hand column. This made 1 collection per author and solved the dragging and dropping of individual files. In one click and drag I established 30 collections, by author, containing over 700 books, that once opened had each series separated off. Hope this helps, Brewjono.