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Sondar · 05-27-2014, 07:03 AM

Thank you, David. Could you tell me where i am going wrong.

I went to the thread that you suggested, and under Kindle / Kobo, I found

Kindle/Kobo

Metadata: Show series - series Index - Title as Title (Kindle/Kobo) (economix)
Spoiler:
I have been playing around with the Metadata plugboards to get the titles on a Kindle 3 to show series information. I used the following template:
format: mobi
device: kindle2
template: {series}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title}
destination: title

This works very nicely for books that are part of a series e.g.:
Quote:
A Song of Ice & Fire - 01 - A Game of Thrones
A Song of Ice & Fire - 02 - A Clash of Kings
A Song of Ice & Fire - 03 - A Storm of Swords
A Song of Ice & Fire - 04 - A Feast for Crows

My thought was to substitute {series}{series_index:0>2s| - | - }{title} for the existing {author_sort}/{series}/{series_index}{title} - {authors} in Preferences -> Sending Books to Devices, but this had absolutely no effect on the books that I loaded into my Kindle, as far as the "Device" list in my Kindle is concerned. I have obviously missed something, and don't know what it is.
Most frustrating - 20 years as a 3rd Gen programmer (PL/1, Cobol etc) and this stuff is not clear to me - must be getting old!!

05-27-2014, 07:03 AM	#3
Sondar Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Australia Device: Several Kindles	Thank you, David. Could you tell me where i am going wrong. I went to the thread that you suggested, and under Kindle / Kobo, I found Kindle/Kobo Metadata: Show series - series Index - Title as Title (Kindle/Kobo) (economix) Spoiler: I have been playing around with the Metadata plugboards to get the titles on a Kindle 3 to show series information. I used the following template: format: mobi device: kindle2 template: {series}{series_index:0>2s\| - \| - }{title} destination: title This works very nicely for books that are part of a series e.g.: Quote: A Song of Ice & Fire - 01 - A Game of Thrones A Song of Ice & Fire - 02 - A Clash of Kings A Song of Ice & Fire - 03 - A Storm of Swords A Song of Ice & Fire - 04 - A Feast for Crows My thought was to substitute {series}{series_index:0>2s\| - \| - }{title} for the existing {author_sort}/{series}/{series_index}{title} - {authors} in Preferences -> Sending Books to Devices, but this had absolutely no effect on the books that I loaded into my Kindle, as far as the "Device" list in my Kindle is concerned. I have obviously missed something, and don't know what it is. Most frustrating - 20 years as a 3rd Gen programmer (PL/1, Cobol etc) and this stuff is not clear to me - must be getting old!!