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Originally Posted by CuriousJay
I love your icon idea and the color idea that both you and unboggling suggested.
Would you mind telling me more about how you implemented it? I didn't even realize Calibre supported this whole icon / color coding bit.
Also, did I read that correctly... you have custom icons that indicate which books are on which reader from your household even when the reader isn't plugged in? So I could set this up on my main Calibre install to indicate which books are on my kindle and which are on my wife's?
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It's probably easier to explain the colour rules I set up by the screen prints attached, but essentially you go to Preferences, Look and Feel and then the tab for column colouring. You then add a rule for your preferences. You can mix and match columns, rows, titles etc to suit.
For the icons, go to the column icons tab and again add rule. It's best to sort out some appropriate icons before you start so you know where to find them. There are a lot of icon editing programs knocking around so you can adapt them as required. I found an icon of an ereader and coloured mine blue and mother-in-law's red. To make this work you also need to set up custom columns in preferences. Mine are HJ and JJ and the columns are set as in the screen print. In the Book Details tab you need to check the custom column names so that they appear in the custom metadata tab. My checkmarks are r for read, u for next upload and y if it is on the reader. Depending on which checkmark is used, the icon will change. Red and blue arrows are for the next upload, blue and red dots are for read and the ereader icon indicates it is on the reader. You can either enter the appropriate checkmark in the custom metadata or from the main screen by double clicking the column. It is easier to enter the ereader icon when the reader is plugged in as you don't have to rely on memory. Mother-in-law just has to remember to tell me which books she's read
For my audiobooks I add an empty book and as there is no format, the loudspeaker icon is the default.
Hope this helps.
Have fun.
Deddajay