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Doug-W · 02-22-2011, 10:49 AM

I have two devices with two vastly different sizes, I'd like to be able to tag specific books, and specific authors to be synced to one, the other, or both and have those settings applied in the future as well.

IE: A nook and an android phone, I want all books by author X to be synced to both, if I get a new book that matches author X, it should by synced to both the next time the devices connect. In addition I'd like specifically books 3, 5, and 9 synced to the nook, while 3, 12, and 15 should be synced to the android.

The later I figure could just be custom tags of yes/no sync_nook / sync_droid but I'm not sure what the best way to set up the first part. I could I suppose create a saved search that lists the authors and the tags, and ondevice:false, and just send that to the device. But if the # of authors in this list gets past 10 or so that's going to be a pain to manage the text of the search. Plus it's still fairly manual, have to change to the saved search and click send to device each time you connect.

Is there an easier way I'm not aware of?

02-22-2011, 10:49 AM	#1
Doug-W Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Nook	Managing automatic syncing among multiple devices I have two devices with two vastly different sizes, I'd like to be able to tag specific books, and specific authors to be synced to one, the other, or both and have those settings applied in the future as well. IE: A nook and an android phone, I want all books by author X to be synced to both, if I get a new book that matches author X, it should by synced to both the next time the devices connect. In addition I'd like specifically books 3, 5, and 9 synced to the nook, while 3, 12, and 15 should be synced to the android. The later I figure could just be custom tags of yes/no sync_nook / sync_droid but I'm not sure what the best way to set up the first part. I could I suppose create a saved search that lists the authors and the tags, and ondevice:false, and just send that to the device. But if the # of authors in this list gets past 10 or so that's going to be a pain to manage the text of the search. Plus it's still fairly manual, have to change to the saved search and click send to device each time you connect. Is there an easier way I'm not aware of?