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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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".
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I know I have any format, I think the device is specific to my kindle2. I will change it. How do you reload the plugboard?
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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?
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I think you're proposing something more sophisticated than I had in mind (probably because I don't know just how sophisticated these functions can get, so I don't get that imaginative, lol.)
My thought was that whenever I load books, I would manually edit the metadata (in bulk, if applicable) to add one set, specific tag (eg: "M/M Romance"). I can do it either in the tags column, or in a "genre" column. I sort of prefer the "genre" option because then it's neater, but if you have a method for making the genre tag the first one in the tags, that could work, too. That way when I sort my tags column, that will be the one sorted by.
Then, having added this genre tag (to the tags or a special genre column) Calibre would search and when it locates a book tagged M/M Romance, it would apply the alphabetical author grouping.
Then I can either create a user category or in Kindle Collections just create collections based on the sorting result for that column.
Clearly I'm not thinking big enough because my assumption of what this thing is capable of is limited by what I imagine I could reasonably make it do. If there is a way to automate things even further, so that the genre tag is generated if the imported books have one or more of the tags commonly used in that genre (I imagine I would have to compile quite a list) and then it proceeds as usual, that would be awesome.
Though, crap, that begs the question of what to do with the authors/series that already have their own collections for whatever reason, because they will be included in the tagging as well.
Unless I make a point of tagging them something like (just an example) "DO NOT SORT" or whatever? Then I can tell Kindle Collections to ignore the books tagged with the "DO NOT SORT" tag.
Also, I used your code for the third (initials) column and now I have an error that says "TEMPLATE ERROR unmatched group" where the series info used to be in a whole bunch of my books.