Thread: Calibre Periodical Categorization
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Old 06-28-2014, 09:34 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by alpha.s View Post
Can someone help me with an issue I'm having with book categorization in Calibre/Kindle Fire HD ?

What Im looking for is a way to categorize a book series (magazine pdfs) as periodical so when I transfer to kindle fire, it shows up in Newsstand tab. After searching, it looks like I need to set CDE Type (501) as 'MAGZ' when converting to mobi. Looking at the code for news, I found this.

Code:
def is_periodical(self): return self.oeb.metadata.publication_type and \ unicode(self.oeb.metadata.publication_type[0]).startswith('periodical:')
so, it looks like I need to set metadata 'publication_type' to 'periodical:something'. the question is how to add this metadata while conversion.

any help is highly appreciated.
IIRC Only Amazon can SOURCE periodicals, everything else is a personal document (and will be forced if sent via the cloud)
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