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Confused by periodicals
Hi,
Just found this plug-in and have installed it and given it a whirl. My main reason for wanting it is to be able to put all my peridicals in a collection (I download The Economist through callibre). I actually manipulate the meta data of each downloaded edition so it shows up as I want it (tweaking the the name and the tag, and then download that version to my kindle via calibre.
Your overall help explains that there are dificulties with periodicals/news and collections. But I think you are saying that you will make this process easy from the next version (I've got 1.4.3). Have I read that correctly?
Meanwhile, I've tried to follow the instructions for tweaking the file type of the periodical, but I'm obviously missing something. I want to be able to put all my currently downloaded editions into a collection. Your notes seem to showing you how to tweak calibre so that all new downloads have a new tag which will automatically mean that the periodical can be put into a collection.
I don't understand how you use the steps below to tell calibre that books with a specific tag (a personal doc tag) should have their type updated. And what is the significance of the MOBI personal doc tag? Is the value of that used somewhere to manipulate the file type?
Apologies if I've missed something obvious.
If this is all going to be resolved in the next version that I'll happily wait, but as a software engineer I'm eager to know what's really going on here!
Phill
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