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Old 04-22-2016, 12:00 AM   #1105
davidfor
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Originally Posted by howyoudoin View Post
davidfor, would it be possible to replace the series info section of the metadata on the device with something else (like number of pages in book)?

Alternatively, in the details view on the device, would it be possible to show page numbers (or something useful) instead of useless information (IMO) like the name of the publisher?
My reaction to this was: YUCK!

But, if that's what you want to do.

Yes, something like that would work. And it should already work for the publisher. If you use a metadata plugboard to send the book to the device, you can set the values of various fields, including the publisher. The plugboard will be used to update the book when it is sent to the device and hence it should be processed into the database and displayed in the details pane for the book. And, if you use the plugboard option of the Metadata updated, it should also update the publisher in the database according to the plugboard. Or at least I think it will. I can't test this at the moment, but from memory the code is written so it will work. Then you might be able to patch the firmware to show "Pages" instead of whatever is there now. But, if the published date is set, this has to be a date and will always be shown after whatever is in the publisher field in the database.

The series is a little harder. It is not an option in the plugboard, so it would have to be coded separately. As I said, yuck, because the series info is displayed in the library lists. And I do set the series. But I can sort of see creating it as a series "Pages" with the series index as the page count. Or series "Words" and the word count. In any case, setting this to something other than the series info, would require some extra code including a way to specify it.

Both of these could be handled via a template. And as I'm planning to change the way the subtitle and comments are handled, I could reuse that for the the series (but with two templates!) and publisher. But, I'd also feel like renaming the function to "Update metadata with whatever rubbish you want"
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