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happydemic · 10-13-2011, 08:53 AM

As a user of calibre since the libreprs500 days, I can't believe I'm only now posting on this forum for the first time... *hangs head in shame*

Kiwidude, thank you for all your awesome plugins. I use this and Goodreads every day, with great pleasure.

I have a feature request which should be quite straightforward but which may be of relatively little interest to other users, particularly the power users on this thread! So I quite understand if you don't fancy it.

I would like to add another sync option - "overwrite device". This would delete all books on the device except for those on the reading list being synced.

The reason I would use a feature like this is that I am still using a bashed-up and dog-eared PRS-505. (Believe me, an e-book can get dog-eared.) Managing books on my device requires waiting for its little gears to crank up and for wizened homunculi to shuffle across the e-paper. So I manage all my books, including deletions, through calibre. My reading "workflow" (funflow?) is so simple - I just use a single sync list to sync to the reader - that rather than set up a separate deletion list, I'd like to be able to add new books and remove old ones all at the same time.

I am undecided whether an "overwrite device" sync should be a "true overwrite" (i.e. operate like "Sync all list items" but also delete everything currently on the device) or whether it should operate more like "Sync new list items" mode, i.e. deleting books not on the list, adding books which aren't on the device, and leaving alone books which are on both. The latter would be quicker and would suit me better, but a "true overwrite" might suit people who aren't too sure what badly formatted old versions they might have on their device and would just like to start again. Alternatively "overwrite device" could be a checkbox (which would do nothing/get greyed out when "Remove" mode is selected).

Thanks again for all your hard work.

10-13-2011, 08:53 AM	#234
happydemic Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: Marvin (iPad Air); Sony PRS 650; Sony PRS-505(!)	As a user of calibre since the libreprs500 days, I can't believe I'm only now posting on this forum for the first time... hangs head in shame Kiwidude, thank you for all your awesome plugins. I use this and Goodreads every day, with great pleasure. I have a feature request which should be quite straightforward but which may be of relatively little interest to other users, particularly the power users on this thread! So I quite understand if you don't fancy it. I would like to add another sync option - "overwrite device". This would delete all books on the device except for those on the reading list being synced. The reason I would use a feature like this is that I am still using a bashed-up and dog-eared PRS-505. (Believe me, an e-book can get dog-eared.) Managing books on my device requires waiting for its little gears to crank up and for wizened homunculi to shuffle across the e-paper. So I manage all my books, including deletions, through calibre. My reading "workflow" (funflow?) is so simple - I just use a single sync list to sync to the reader - that rather than set up a separate deletion list, I'd like to be able to add new books and remove old ones all at the same time. I am undecided whether an "overwrite device" sync should be a "true overwrite" (i.e. operate like "Sync all list items" but also delete everything currently on the device) or whether it should operate more like "Sync new list items" mode, i.e. deleting books not on the list, adding books which aren't on the device, and leaving alone books which are on both. The latter would be quicker and would suit me better, but a "true overwrite" might suit people who aren't too sure what badly formatted old versions they might have on their device and would just like to start again. Alternatively "overwrite device" could be a checkbox (which would do nothing/get greyed out when "Remove" mode is selected). Thanks again for all your hard work.