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BobVA · 10-04-2006, 06:46 PM

I'm thinking of a temporary work around for a pile of short stories/novellas I've got.

- Copy all the files I'd put in a folder (e.g. by author or subject) into one big file.
- Use the "search" and "bookmark" functions of the Connect software to put named bookmarks at the start of each story/novella. (The individual stories all have some kind of uniform tag near the top..."Title:", for example, in Gutenberg files.)
- Put the files on the reader and jump to the named bookmarks to hit the story I'm looking for.

EDIT: Tried it and it works OK. I had to use an RTF file so I could put in hard page breaks between the articles. Without those, the bookmark labels (which are generated automatically by Connect and can't be edited) had all sorts of irrelevant junk in them. Upside is that you can use the RTF file properties to put a proper name/author on the file.

I'm putting the author in the file name (eg "HG Wells Stories"), so I put a tag (Story Collections) in the author field. That allows me to locate all these kind of files quickly on the reader with an author-sorted view.

I can open "HG Wells Stories", then hit "Bookmarks" and get a nice list of the eight books in the single file.

Cheers,
Bob

10-04-2006, 06:46 PM	#6
BobVA Addict Posts: 230 Karma: 1500 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Kobo Clara, Sony PRS950, T1, T2, T3	I'm thinking of a temporary work around for a pile of short stories/novellas I've got. - Copy all the files I'd put in a folder (e.g. by author or subject) into one big file. - Use the "search" and "bookmark" functions of the Connect software to put named bookmarks at the start of each story/novella. (The individual stories all have some kind of uniform tag near the top..."Title:", for example, in Gutenberg files.) - Put the files on the reader and jump to the named bookmarks to hit the story I'm looking for. EDIT: Tried it and it works OK. I had to use an RTF file so I could put in hard page breaks between the articles. Without those, the bookmark labels (which are generated automatically by Connect and can't be edited) had all sorts of irrelevant junk in them. Upside is that you can use the RTF file properties to put a proper name/author on the file. I'm putting the author in the file name (eg "HG Wells Stories"), so I put a tag (Story Collections) in the author field. That allows me to locate all these kind of files quickly on the reader with an author-sorted view. I can open "HG Wells Stories", then hit "Bookmarks" and get a nice list of the eight books in the single file. Cheers, Bob Last edited by BobVA; 10-05-2006 at 07:12 AM.