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BetterRed · 05-02-2016, 04:35 PM

@Agama - I somehow lost track of this thread, so I missed your post #18, and hence the existence of the PI.

BTW - one has always been able to add any file type (except .LNK) to a book folder via the Add files to selected book records option (you have to spin the file type selector to All files (*.*)), and more recently by drag/drop a file of any type into the book details panel. Calibre won't lose those files if the book is retitled or moved to another library etc. I assume there's a way to do similar from a PI.

Meanwhile I moved on to this ==>> Calibre and Evernote. Important to me was that I could use the same approach to store supplementary information for authors and books, equally important was that Evernote doesn't impose a hierarchical structure like file systems do. Thanks to chaley, a bonus for CC users is that they can view the same EN Notes from their Android devices as they do from Calibre desktop - and update the EN Notes from their devices.

I have an item on my To Do list, which is to consider moving the Evernote links I have in my Book Notes custom column to an Arbitrary Identifier. An upside would be that I could scrap the Book Notes that only have a single Evernote link (~80%). A downside would be that I would lose visibility of the EN note Title in calibre, so the link I have in the King Lear Book Note would appear as "Evernote", whereas now it appears as "Kurosawa's Ran". Another downside is that it wouldn't dispense with the Evernote links in Book Notes where there's more than one link.

I think I just convinced myself to leave things as they are - I put a high value on having a consistent approach, avoids having to remember why exceptions even exist.

Let me know here, or via a PM If you want me to move post 18 onwards into a new thread in the plugins subforum - [GUI Plugin] Book Links - then if you wanted to, we can put it in the index and make it 'official'.

@readin - thanks for bumping the thread

BR

05-02-2016, 04:35 PM	#20
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,869 Karma: 30277270 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Agama - I somehow lost track of this thread, so I missed your post #18, and hence the existence of the PI. BTW - one has always been able to add any file type (except .LNK) to a book folder via the Add files to selected book records option (you have to spin the file type selector to All files (.)), and more recently by drag/drop a file of any type into the book details panel. Calibre won't lose those files if the book is retitled or moved to another library etc. I assume there's a way to do similar from a PI. Meanwhile I moved on to this ==>> Calibre and Evernote. Important to me was that I could use the same approach to store supplementary information for authors and books, equally important was that Evernote doesn't impose a hierarchical structure like file systems do. Thanks to chaley, a bonus for CC users is that they can view the same EN Notes from their Android devices as they do from Calibre desktop - and update the EN Notes from their devices. I have an item on my To Do list, which is to consider moving the Evernote links I have in my Book Notes custom column to an Arbitrary Identifier. An upside would be that I could scrap the Book Notes that only have a single Evernote link (~80%). A downside would be that I would lose visibility of the EN note Title in calibre, so the link I have in the King Lear Book Note would appear as "Evernote", whereas now it appears as "Kurosawa's Ran". Another downside is that it wouldn't dispense with the Evernote links in Book Notes where there's more than one link. I think I just convinced myself to leave things as they are - I put a high value on having a consistent approach, avoids having to remember why exceptions even exist. Let me know here, or via a PM If you want me to move post 18 onwards into a new thread in the plugins subforum - [GUI Plugin] Book Links - then if you wanted to, we can put it in the index and make it 'official'. @readin - thanks for bumping the thread BR Last edited by BetterRed; 05-02-2016 at 04:38 PM.