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jjquin · 03-01-2018, 04:47 AM

I've been using Calibre for years to manage me 3k+ epub library, but just recently I found this forum! I can't believe how much I've learned over the last two weeks! I've been reconfiguring my whole library thanks to what I've learned so far. Here are my custom columns:

Size KB: program: format_number(divide(booksize(), 1048), '{0:.1f}'), I only keep epub format and found it much easer to read in KB than MB since so many of my epub files are less that 250KB.
Last Checked: This is a date field that has the last date I checked to make sure the metatdata is correct. Since I've been adding fields and changing the polish template I've found that a date field is better than yes/no. If I make a major change, I can tell by the date which books I have to go recheck.
Pages and Words: from Count Pages plugin
Genre: I moved this from tags and made the new field hierarchical.
Contributors: I have a lot of books with secondary authors. In FBReader my author list was huge and many authors just had one book. This field allows me to store the secondary authors without them showing up in FBReader.
Subseries: My wife loves romances and many of the books belong to more than one series.
Notes: This is a long text field thats a catchall for any other info on the book. I prefer this to using the comments field since it gets replaced when you download metadata.

I'm still learning. I've spent the last week going through and cleaning up the tags field, downloading metadata and basically learning this great program!

03-01-2018, 04:47 AM	#11
jjquin Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2018 Device: Android - FBReader	I've been using Calibre for years to manage me 3k+ epub library, but just recently I found this forum! I can't believe how much I've learned over the last two weeks! I've been reconfiguring my whole library thanks to what I've learned so far. Here are my custom columns: Size KB: program: format_number(divide(booksize(), 1048), '{0:.1f}'), I only keep epub format and found it much easer to read in KB than MB since so many of my epub files are less that 250KB. Last Checked: This is a date field that has the last date I checked to make sure the metatdata is correct. Since I've been adding fields and changing the polish template I've found that a date field is better than yes/no. If I make a major change, I can tell by the date which books I have to go recheck. Pages and Words: from Count Pages plugin Genre: I moved this from tags and made the new field hierarchical. Contributors: I have a lot of books with secondary authors. In FBReader my author list was huge and many authors just had one book. This field allows me to store the secondary authors without them showing up in FBReader. Subseries: My wife loves romances and many of the books belong to more than one series. Notes: This is a long text field thats a catchall for any other info on the book. I prefer this to using the comments field since it gets replaced when you download metadata. I'm still learning. I've spent the last week going through and cleaning up the tags field, downloading metadata and basically learning this great program!