Quote:
Originally Posted by chaley
It is worth noting that you can get an approximation of your desired collections when using manual mode only if you send the book from each library.
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Hmm, so if doing manual management, what template should I use for collections? I'm fine with resending ebooks to the reader whenever I want to update metadata/collection information. In fact, that's already what I do. One issue, as can be seen from the above example, is it's a pain navigating a large number of unsorted collections some of which may have the same name but different uses altogether (e.g. Harry Potter as series and Harry Potter as tag/category).
I went into Preferences » Plugins » Customize SONY Device Interface and the default for collections is: series, tags
If I want series to show up as
Series: Series Name and the tags to show up as
Category: Tag Name or
Genre: Tag Name (would be using different Calibre Portable installs so I don't ever forget to change settings when sending ebooks), what should I need to change the collections option to?
If that's not possible, do you know what I might be able to do to quickly creating custom columns using existing metadata? I figure if I can't customize the device interface plugin to automatically generate the custom collection names, I should be able to use custom columns instead and use those to generate collections.
e.g.
Code:
series #myseries (
Harry Potter -> Series: Harry Potter
Twilight -> Series: Twilight
tags #category
Harry Potter, Twilight -> Category: Harry Potter, Category: Twilight
Also wondering, is possible to do automatically generate values for custom columns like this:
Code:
tags #type #genre
Fiction, Children, Fantasy -> Fiction Genre: Children, Genre: Fantasy
Fiction, Supernatural -> Fiction Genre: Supernatural
FanFiction, Humor -> FanFiction Genre: Humor
Magazine -> Magazine
Basically, if the tag matches some predefined values (in this case: Fiction, FanFiction & Magazine), it goes to #type, otherwise, it goes to #genre as
Genre: Tag Name.
Thanks so much!