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RadicalxEdward · 05-17-2015, 03:35 AM

Hello again everyone,

I'm a little OCD about organizing my calibre library. A lot of it is manga that I have converted for my kindle paperwhite 2 with Kindle Comic Converter. Some manga has a title for the volume, some don't and the kindle doesn't show as much information as calibre does, so I want the titles to be informative but not so long that they're overly truncated and unreadable on the kindle in list view (since they can be hard to distinguish by cover art alone)

So here's my problem, I want to have a consistent title scheme for any manga. i.e.
Attack on Titan, Vol. 01: Prototype (this seems like an okay balance between size and info, idk)
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1: Prototype
Attack on Titan, Volume 01: Prototype
Attack on Titan, Volume 1: Prototype
Volume 01: Prototype
Volume 1: Prototype
Attack on Titan: Prototype
Attack on Titan - Volume 01
Attack on Titan - Volume 1
Attack on Titan - V1
Attack on Titan - V01
etc etc

KCC, when using it's metadata feature (which makes it so it doesn't put KCC as the author which i hate) will style it like: Attack on Titan V1 #1 which may work for american comics that are sorted by volume/issue #'s, but not so good for manga. And it doesn't have an option for a volume's title if it has one.

I know this is kind of anal, but do any of you guys have a consistent scheme you use for titling manga? I'm only worried about the title cause that's what shows up on the kindle and what things will be sorted by.

Thanks

EDIT: While searching I also just came across some plugboard thing? So that calibre would convert a books title when transferring to kindle so that kindle shows all the info i want in title, without actually having to manually enter it in the title in calibre. Would that be better?

05-17-2015, 03:35 AM	#1
RadicalxEdward Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Amazon Kindle	Best title system for manga? Hello again everyone, I'm a little OCD about organizing my calibre library. A lot of it is manga that I have converted for my kindle paperwhite 2 with Kindle Comic Converter. Some manga has a title for the volume, some don't and the kindle doesn't show as much information as calibre does, so I want the titles to be informative but not so long that they're overly truncated and unreadable on the kindle in list view (since they can be hard to distinguish by cover art alone) So here's my problem, I want to have a consistent title scheme for any manga. i.e. Attack on Titan, Vol. 01: Prototype (this seems like an okay balance between size and info, idk) Attack on Titan, Vol. 1: Prototype Attack on Titan, Volume 01: Prototype Attack on Titan, Volume 1: Prototype Volume 01: Prototype Volume 1: Prototype Attack on Titan: Prototype Attack on Titan - Volume 01 Attack on Titan - Volume 1 Attack on Titan - V1 Attack on Titan - V01 etc etc KCC, when using it's metadata feature (which makes it so it doesn't put KCC as the author which i hate) will style it like: Attack on Titan V1 #1 which may work for american comics that are sorted by volume/issue #'s, but not so good for manga. And it doesn't have an option for a volume's title if it has one. I know this is kind of anal, but do any of you guys have a consistent scheme you use for titling manga? I'm only worried about the title cause that's what shows up on the kindle and what things will be sorted by. Thanks EDIT: While searching I also just came across some plugboard thing? So that calibre would convert a books title when transferring to kindle so that kindle shows all the info i want in title, without actually having to manually enter it in the title in calibre. Would that be better? Last edited by RadicalxEdward; 05-17-2015 at 03:41 AM.