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_daclaus · 08-22-2013, 11:13 AM

Hi all,

I'm having some trouble in using the metadata plugboard, as the title says: I don't really understand what I'm supposed to do there.

Today I purchased a Kindle PW, and since I'm a fan of John Maddox Roberts' SPQR books, I uploaded them to my PW. Right, the sorting was not how I liked it to be, it was alphabetically, not chronologically. I edited the metadata, put "SPQR" in the series field and 1.00 to 13.00 in the number field.

What do I want?

I want to have it sorted by authors, and then by the number of the series, like:
Roberts, John Maddox / 01 - The King's Gambit
Roberts, John Maddox / 02 - ...
etc

what I entered in the metadata plugboard was this:

format: mobi (I only sync mobi to my PW)
device: kindle2
source: {author_sort}/{series_index:0>2s|[|] - }{title}
target (maybe wrong name, I use the german version): author_sort

When I apply this and sync the books to the device, nothing changes.

What am I doing wrong?

08-22-2013, 11:13 AM	#1
_daclaus Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Metadata Plugboard - I don't get it... Hi all, I'm having some trouble in using the metadata plugboard, as the title says: I don't really understand what I'm supposed to do there. Today I purchased a Kindle PW, and since I'm a fan of John Maddox Roberts' SPQR books, I uploaded them to my PW. Right, the sorting was not how I liked it to be, it was alphabetically, not chronologically. I edited the metadata, put "SPQR" in the series field and 1.00 to 13.00 in the number field. What do I want? I want to have it sorted by authors, and then by the number of the series, like: Roberts, John Maddox / 01 - The King's Gambit Roberts, John Maddox / 02 - ... etc what I entered in the metadata plugboard was this: format: mobi (I only sync mobi to my PW) device: kindle2 source: {author_sort}/{series_index:0>2s\|[\|] - }{title} target (maybe wrong name, I use the german version): author_sort When I apply this and sync the books to the device, nothing changes. What am I doing wrong?