Thread: Guide to Collections Management with calibre (Touch / Glo / Mini /Aura)
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Old 02-20-2014, 10:30 PM   #318
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Samanthaaaa View Post
Thank you David. I don't know if this will veer going a little off-topic now and maybe I need to cross-post in the 'Count Pages' thread too... But I want to create a few bookshelves which sort my 'books' into shelves based on the value of the word count. For example shelves with the title: 'Greater than 20,000 words', 'Greater than 50,000 words', 'Greater than 100,000 Words' etc.

How would I go about this? (And if this is beyond the knowledge of this thread, please tell me to post it else-where).
That's not off-topic at all, and it is quite a good idea. I haven't created shelves like that, but I have my word count column colour coded to indicate "Novel", "Novella" etc.

To do something like this, you need a custom column that uses a template to generate the name of the shelf. The following should work:

Code:
Lookup Name:    wordsshelfname
Column Heading: Words Shelf Name
Type:               Column built from other columns
Template: {#words:'cmp($, 100000, cmp($, 50000, cmp($, 20000, '', 'Greater than 20,000 words', 'Greater than 20,000 words'), 'Greater than 50,000 words', 'Greater than 50,000 words'), 'Greater than 100,000 Words', 'Greater than 100,000 Words')'}
Then add "#wordsshelfname" into the shelf column name field of the driver configuration.

You can change the names to what you want. And the "#words" is the lookup name of your word count column.

If you want to add more divisions of the shelves, it isn't hard. But, it might be an idea to look at a slightly different way of doing it. The templates can be put elsewhere, so that they can be reused more easily.
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