Thread: Nook Simple Touch- cut off for data in save to disc
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Old 07-31-2012, 10:50 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by trianglekitty View Post
Ah...so it isn't even a Nook issue but a windows issue. That makes perfect sense, thank you!
As always, it is Windows fault

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I don't suppose there's a way in calibre to see the number of characters in a column field?[/QUOTE]

I'm not an expert on the template language. But looking at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html, I can see a "strlen" function. But, I suspect that using the "shorten" function might do what you want. I would try:

Code:
{#genre}/{author}/{series}/{title} - {summary:shorten(50, ..., 0)}
That should give (assuming I have the call to shorten right) something like:

Code:
Ste/Watchto/The Dark Tower- first in the series, characters meet, stuff happe...
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