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Originally Posted by ACGAuthor
It is still being applied to the old books. I even completely removed the books from the device and reloaded them. The books that I initially applied the plugboard to are still correct, but books I have added since aren't.
Checking the template in the custom column...
Okay, it appears to work in when I applied the template to a custom column. Hmm. Wonder why it's not working when sending to the device.
Could it be because I had a custom template in the "sending books to device" settings? I think when I was messing around trying to figure the plugboard and templates thing, I plugged in one of the "Send to Device" templates someone had posted. I don't remember if I put that back to default settings before or after I created the metadata plugboard, or whether or not I got rid of it before or after I loaded the books onto my device last.
Anyway, I wiped the books off the device again earlier because I was doing a bunch of massive changes, and with this new stuff I'm working on, I'm just going to reload the whole library once I've got it figured out. So I guess... maybe it will work this time?
Woot! Awesome!
Well, these are the overall collections I have (I have jailbroken my Kindle to use Collections Manager to nest sub-collections within them):
M/F Romance - I have author, series, and sub-genre categories within this and the next one. Not really a large enough collection of this genre to worry about separating them out.
M/M Romance -this is the one I'm most concerned with. I read a lot of it, since it's the genre I publish in.
I use author/series/sub-genre collections for my favorites or the ones I have a large enough collection that it's worth separating it out from the rest. But I also have A LOT of misc singleton authors and books that are hard to wade through.
SFF/UF/PNR (sci-fi/fantasy/urban fantasy/paranormal) This is my second largest collection, but again, I don't think I have enough to need to worry about separating them out. That may change someday in the future, but for now I'm okay here.
So, right now, the only genre I really need to break down by alphabetical author groupings is M/M Romance. SFF/UF/PNR is okay for now, but if whatever system I end up using is customizable to allow me to include that later, so much the better.
I am thinking that I might make a Genre column because the tags that can come with a book or that are downloaded when you download the metadata can be a mess.
M/M Romance might be tagged any of the following ways: M/M Romance, MM Romance, gay romance, lgbt romance, M/M, MM, gay, lgbt, MM erotic romance, etc etc etc.
SFF/UF/PNR could be tagged Fantasy, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, shifters, vampires, magic, and so on and so forth.
So I could go through and add a tag to the masses in bulk, or I can just add a genre field. Same amount of effort either way, but the Genre field is visually cleaner.
Thanks again so very much!
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If the template is working in the custom column, then try reloading the plugboard. It also may have been only set for certain format/device combos -- to be safe, I always used "any format" "any device".
As far as the genre tagging goes, those are a lot of tags...
We could just test for tags, then if tags are present (I assume each book can only have one tag, for the genre you assigned?) add that into the beginning of the column? I could also scan for each tag individually and then given certain tags, add a main collection name at the beginning. Is one of these options what you are thinking of? Which one would be better?