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Originally Posted by dodgyr
Yeah, the organisation of books within calibre has been great. It is more on the T1 that I am having problems with. Using tags as the collection names, I had 10 books by the same author, and it already had about 40+ collections (which if anything, makes the collection method of looking for a book to read very tedious).
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In calibre I have 10000 books and only 240 tags. For tag creation I only use the Goodreads metadata download plugin with the goodreads.json
file attached to this post. Using the goodreads plugin for tags limits the amount of downloaded tags to a manageable amount perfectly suited for collections.
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Originally Posted by dodgyr
I thought of using just genre, but then you really have to know your series to find the 'next' book in a series to read (eg. reading a 6 part series and having to know the name of the next part to read). Did you find this or did you find a way around that?
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I use a couple of calibre tweaks to help me with series. The first tweak is how Sony collections are sorted. The below tweak insures all series based collections will be sorted in series order.
Code:
# Specify how SONY collections are sorted
sony_collection_sorting_rules = [(['series'], 'series_index')]
This tweak will add (Series) after any collection based on series, see attached. This helps you quickly locate series amongst all collections.
Code:
# Specify renaming rules for SONY collections
sony_collection_name_template = '{value} {category:|(|)}'
sony_collection_renaming_rules = {'series': 'Series'}
On my 950 I use a plugboard that adds series info to be added to the author line (see attached) but I think the jury is still out (
read this thread starting here) on whether the finer points of the plugboards will work with the T-1 based on possible limits in author field length.
Have fun with your new toy.
