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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
The latest versions have a tool to change defaults, the "LIBRARY_PATH = "/mnt/sd" option is at the top of the fourth page. You need to point it to the directory where calibre put its calibre.metadata file. If you the send to the "A drive" function of calibre it will be "/mnt/sd". Funny, "Series" is one of the default tags included in the search. In fact it was one of the first things I tried with it. It found all of "the Restoration Series [x]" (that is how the tag is listed in calibre) by just entering "restoration". Not sure about the order, I didn't test it that much, but they were all listed and there were no false positives. This is a brand new feature (it was even labeled "Experimental") such added features to Koreader have developed rather rapidly, with user input. The results you get will probably depend on how you constructed the calibre library that you use with the device, and how you construct your search.
I am sure WS64 would be interested in any improvements you can suggest. I would rather have Series sorted by the number of the book in the series.
Luck;
Ken
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Ummm... Ken, did you read my message? Note the point where I stated "
setting the library path to /mnt/sd is not intuitive when I'm trying to set the search path". Please note other search items are labelled search-whatever. And, yes, it searches by series. What it does not is to return series as a search result, instead you get all the books in the series mixed with any other books that matched the search criteria.
Using the Grantville Gazette as an example, using the Kobo UI, when I type "gr", the search returns shows Grantville Gazette (series) plus the books in the series plus anything else that matched gr. Tap on the "Grantville Gazette" series entry and I get the books in the series neatly sorted. When I use the KoReader UI, I get the books in the series scrambled in with every other book that matches gr and no entry for the series itself. All this randomly scattered over 11 pages of results.
Using "grant" as the search, I get all 54 of the Grantville Gazettes plus 5 other books that matched the search entry so 4 pages of results with only 15 results on the 4th page. Again all in what appears to be a random order so no chance of going to page 3 to find Volume 45 for example.
I also noticed the library-path entry does not show in the defaults UI until I have done one search using /mnt/onboard where it prompts me to save the defaults. The change did not seem to stick through a power cycle so I finally created that entry by editing defaults.lua. Hmmm... boot to the Kobo side, connect to the computer, use Notepad++ to follow the instructions in the defaults.lua file and add the entry, reboot back to Koreader.
Not quite ready for prime time in my not so humble opinion.
Regards,
David