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Originally Posted by HarryT
Plugboards are an extremely useful feature of Calibre which allows you to modify the title of an eBook automatically, according to a template, when the books is transferred to your reader. I have mine configured so that if a book is in a series, Calibre automatically prefixes the title with the series name, number within the series, and a hyphen. Thus, in my Calibre metadata for Agatha Christie's "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" I have the series name set to "Poirot", and the number to "1". When I transfer the book to my Kindle, the book title automatically gets changed to:
Poirot 01 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
This makes the use of collections for series essentially redundant.
As a device, the Kindle and Sony are very similar. What puts the Kindle squarely in front for me are the Amazon bookstore, the ease of buying books, and Amazon's GREAT customer service. Eg, if I buy a book at Amazon, I can return it for any reason within 7 days of purchase. If I buy a book at Sony and find the it has poor formatting then tough - all sales are final.
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Oh, I used to do that myself manually, before i figured collections out when i first got my reader...
It got to the point where it took too many page turns to get to the right book. it does work, but i'd rather work the collections. My friend bought a kindle 3, and he had to sit there after importing the whole library for ages manually filing books into collections.
I don't have a kindle to play with, so anyone who uses the collection plugin for calibre - is that a pain?