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Old 07-05-2011, 01:41 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Mellobob View Post
Question: Would rooting the device make me feel any better about this issue? I'm considering just for the browser. Reading some of the rooting information leaves me thinking that it's not quite ready for primetime?
I've asked this question already and sadly the people with the technical know-how to hack the Touch seem to be focused on turning it into a web browser/tablet rather than improving much needed features like library management whether it be for side-loaded content or b&n content. Because I have 100 ebooks from B&N sitting on my original Nook and I'm sure when I bring them over to the Touch they are not going to just automatically sort themselves to shelves for me.

All that being said I think the answer to our problems is going to be in the My Files section of the Touch. Based on what I've seen this is folder management, the Holy Grail for side-loaded content and, if you do it right, B&N content as well. I haven't said anything yet because I'm still figuring out the template language for Calibre. Calibre's default setting when Saving To Device/Disk is Author/Title/Title - Author.epub with the slashes indicating a change in directory. This can be changed however. Hence figuring out the template language. When I'm done I should be able to get Calibre to spit out the following Genre/Sub-Genre/(Series if one)Title - Author.epub. I have a custom column called Genres that allows to sort for genre hierarchies ie Fantasy/Epic, Fantasy/Dark, Sci-Fi/Space Opera etc This is the tutorial on how to create that type of column - http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/sub_groups.html

If it works the way I think it should it will be great for side-loaded content. If you've downloaded your B&N content to your computer you can import that into Calibre as well and then side-load it to your Touch. The only drawback I'm seeing so far to this is that if you have a book in multiple genres it will be loaded multiple times onto the Touch. It won't function like tags or the Shelves where multiple tags/Shelves will point to a single file. As far as I'm concerned if that's the only drawback then I can live with it.
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