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Originally Posted by ChrisZA
[Coming in late...]
Hmm, means one can also share one's library with buds - right? Niiiice...
On whether this is useful: yes, for 2 reasons:
1) remote hosting on a server where I don't want to install calibre
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You should make sure that there is some security in place if sharing on the internet. You do not want books available to all-and-sundry or you might find the copyright owners having a go at you.
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2) structuring so I can work thro iPhone transfer methodically and apply 'categories' to each batch of transfers
I see in your code you have a section of "books by category". How are you doing that? I can't find 'category' in calibre, and I've been creating them manually in stanza. Perhaps this is actually a split based on tags - which is awesome...?
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yes - the "categories" are being created from the tags. If you read the release notes you will see that a few categories (PAPER, OMNIBUS, WISHLIST) are being given some special treatment (because it suited me). I had wondered about saying categories starting with specific characters ("e.g. asterisk) should be given special treatment but could not make up my mind so nothing is done there (yet anyway).
I have also wondered whether Series at the Calibre level should also be turned into Categories at the Stanza metadata level so that they get listed by Stanza (which currently does not have the concept of series). That is one I have definitely been thinking about doing. If I did that I would also change the title to display as Seriesindex: Book name (as under the current series breakdwon) so that they get sorted correctly.
There are also items like the fact that under an Author I display the series that author has contrubted to - and if you follow the link to the series I list all the books in the series - not just the ones the author contributed to. This seemed a good idea at the time - I do not know what others think.
This is the sort of area I was hoping I would get feedback on to see what other peoples requirements were any ideas on "nice to have" features as they are probably different to mine.