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jesscat · 04-06-2011, 08:00 PM

Sorin's post reminded me of a question I've had for a little while but have forgotten to ask. It seems to me that for an approach like that to work - to be able to right-click from device view and have an option for "send to collection" - you need to be able to see the collections in device view. Before I installed this plug-in, I remember that I used to be able to see my collections in device view, but I can't anymore. It doesn't matter so much to me because I use calibre to manage my collections, but I'm wondering why this happened - does it have something to do with the plug-in?

Also, as a reply to Sorin: my thought is that the easiest way to do what you want for right now if you want to work from the full library view when sending books to collections is to create a custom column in Calibre called "collections." Then just put in that column the names of the collections you want a book to be in, and customize the plug-in to look to that column instead of to tags. It's almost like a "send to" option - just instead of clicking "send" you type the collection name into the column. The column shows you exactly which collections the book is in, and you can sort on it, etc. That's what I do. I use collections to keep track of favorites, or unread books; that sort of thing, rather than to organize by author or series or category, so this works better for me than trying to pare down my list of tags, and it enables me to immediately see what collections a book is in just by looking at the column.

The only issue, of course, is that if you currently have many collections on your Kindle, you have to replicate those collections in your column (which, depending on how you use Calibre, might be a waste of effort if your Kindle collections are in fact based on author or tag or series, columns that already exist in Calibre) - but once you've done that, you can edit a book's collection at any time from the full library view (without changing tags or authors or anything like that - simply controlling collections) just by changing the contents of that column.

04-06-2011, 08:00 PM	#536
jesscat Groupie Posts: 164 Karma: 354 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: US Device: iPad mini	Sorin's post reminded me of a question I've had for a little while but have forgotten to ask. It seems to me that for an approach like that to work - to be able to right-click from device view and have an option for "send to collection" - you need to be able to see the collections in device view. Before I installed this plug-in, I remember that I used to be able to see my collections in device view, but I can't anymore. It doesn't matter so much to me because I use calibre to manage my collections, but I'm wondering why this happened - does it have something to do with the plug-in? Also, as a reply to Sorin: my thought is that the easiest way to do what you want for right now if you want to work from the full library view when sending books to collections is to create a custom column in Calibre called "collections." Then just put in that column the names of the collections you want a book to be in, and customize the plug-in to look to that column instead of to tags. It's almost like a "send to" option - just instead of clicking "send" you type the collection name into the column. The column shows you exactly which collections the book is in, and you can sort on it, etc. That's what I do. I use collections to keep track of favorites, or unread books; that sort of thing, rather than to organize by author or series or category, so this works better for me than trying to pare down my list of tags, and it enables me to immediately see what collections a book is in just by looking at the column. The only issue, of course, is that if you currently have many collections on your Kindle, you have to replicate those collections in your column (which, depending on how you use Calibre, might be a waste of effort if your Kindle collections are in fact based on author or tag or series, columns that already exist in Calibre) - but once you've done that, you can edit a book's collection at any time from the full library view (without changing tags or authors or anything like that - simply controlling collections) just by changing the contents of that column.