Thread: Aura ONE folders for books I don't want to be in the kobo library?
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Old 07-16-2018, 10:51 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by crane3 View Post
Creating hidden directory is 'useless' as the reader app needs to be able to see & select the reading material.
Your original post was a bit misleading. It sounded like you wanted to put books on the device but not have them in the library. But, it appears you were wanting to know how you could organise them in directories.
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Having the light novels in a separate directory is my personal preference. As I have not received my Aura One yet, I do not know what the library is capable of doing; would like to have sub-categories & such.
In the directory structure, you can do just about anything you want. If the books is seen it is imported into the library. This is a flat structure, but with some filtering (Unread, Read, reading, Purchased etc) and a good search capabilites. There is also an Author list and Collections. The collections are arbitrary (you can do what you want) and books can be in multiple collections. Calibre can create the collections for you in many ways.
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The light novels come in chapters & that means the library will have many chapters for each volume. Some chapters are in 'text' format before they are converted to epub. I just cannot see that my library will have each chapter & volume be listed separately in the library.
Like DNSB, I assume you mean that the chapters are in separate files. That's fine, the Kobo firmware doesn't care so long as it is a valid book. Personally, I'd probably merge them into one book and add new chapters as they come along. Or find a mechanism to download them this way (FanFicFare comes to mind). Otherwise, your could use the series info to set the reading order. The Kobo firmware can handle and sort on series, so it should work.
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It does look like I will just use my tablets for light novels & manuals; and it also appears that the Kobo firmware puts everything that is 'readable' into the device's library.
Yes, that is the case. But, like DNSB, I can't work out if you are seeing this as a negative or positive. And I agree with him that the ereaders are not really mass storage devices and I only put books that I want to read on them.
Last edited by davidfor; 07-17-2018 at 04:12 AM. Reason: Fixed the first paragraph in my reply to make it clearer.
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