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Originally Posted by dmcd
How do I dump the date columns and replace with an original publication date please? Can I even do this? Can I just get rid of these useless columns to increase screen real estate?
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You can manually edit the published date column yourself or you can use the download metadata option in the metadata editor to obtain the published date you want for that column by selecting the right version of the book. Certainly you can customize the columns that show up, check out
this blog or the
video tutorial for ways to customize the columns.
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The other thing I would like to have is a column that indicates the format of each entry so that I can see these at a glance and know immediately which ones need converting to my particular reader format and which ones I can just drag and drop in a bunch to my reader. It's such a pain to open every book just to read the format in which it currently exists. I did find instructions online for playing around in the templates to change column things, but it was way beyond my capabilities to do this and then I would have to populate the info in the column manually.
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One of the custom column templates is 'formats', it's very easy to add a custom column for it, see the blog I linked above.
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I know I can search for individual formats, but my aim is to eventually have only my compatible formats in Calibre library and the other formats stored elsewhere in case I ever change readers. If I buy a second ereader for another family member that uses a different format, I want to see at a glance if I have both formats of a book in the Calibre Library.
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Storing formats in other places is unnecessary, the calibre database is capable of storing multiple formats for every book and it can send the compatible format to each device.