Thread: Guide to Collections Management with calibre (Touch / Glo / Mini /Aura)
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Old 05-04-2014, 12:47 AM   #366
davidfor
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Originally Posted by glos View Post
Thank you davidfor, as always!

So, I tried:
Note I'm using latest calibre, latest plug-ins and Aura HD with 2.8.1
I used
{authors} - {#read} - {#words}
because all my authors are usernames (for fanfics) except a few and there's one in the pic, and I've tweaked author_sort to be the same as author because I like FN LN
I've created a new shelf with a few new books for the device, here's a picture showing what happens when i sort by author on that shelf.
So, it looks like it's sorting with the word number (weirdly, because a huge fic there was placed because its word count started by 2 only, same after a 54k book there's a 6k one).
It's sorting using the word count as a character string rather than a number. That means the count starting with a 1 will be before those starting with a 2 no matter how long the number is. i.e. 1111 will be before 222.
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IF i don't have a wc or a read value (ie: the books that were already on the device before I did this and only have the author in the author space) the books are sorted at the end of the list.
Those with - - because there's the undefined value for the read column don't mess up the order that goes with the first number of the word count.
And I don't really mind that there's Yes and - - , I know what that means and it's ok

I'm actually fine with this result, I don't sort much by author, I usually just search for one or just browse my shelves with date added or recently read order.
But I really like to immediately see if I've read the book or not and the word count [I used to put it on the cover of the fic if it was without a proper one but I had to go to the details to read it anyway, this saves me many clicks].
Personally, I find setting the reading status of the book to be better. That shows at the end of the line for each book in the list. Plus it can be used to filter the books in the list. The Kobo Utilities plugin can set this either from a column in the calibre library or for selected books.
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I'll soon delete and re-add all my other books so if you want more testing of other things... just tell me
I can't think of anything. But, you can set the author using the utilities plugin without removing and resending the books.
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