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Old 11-11-2021, 02:30 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Liudprand View Post
Thanks, davidfor, for this very lengthy response.

(One quick, unrelated query about this forum: The little box next to "Quote message in reply?" is greyed out, so I can't easily quote chunks of your post. Is there something I need to do to activate this function?)

Just to clarify one thing: the problem I was talking about, which my H2O didn't (still doesn't) have relates to my Libra 2 repeatedly, and frequently, freezing. In fact it's going to be replaced, becuase Kobo have agreed it's a fault. I didn't mean that I'd used it successfully to handle collections information.

As to the rest, it's all very informative - thanks. Without going through it piece by piece, though, one thing seems to be clear; or, rather, I'd be grateful if you could confirm it for me either way. Namely, the Collections functionality on Kobo devices allows books to belong to several different collections. For example, a book on the Vietnam War might be in a collection titled "US Politics" and another one titled "War" - in fact, the possibilities are endless, obviously: "Southeast Asia", "Cold War", etc. etc. The column-based functionality you're explaining doesn't seem as if it would be able to achieve that.

On the other hand, perhaps that's not the case - becuase you say Calibre can draw collections information from the settings on a Kobo device - and that's the way my H2O is set up, for example.

If you could clarify that one point for me, I would, as ever, be very grateful. Because if Calibre can't work with "overlapping" collections, then it won't be of any use to me for that purpose.

Liudprand
Your #collections column needs to allow multiple entries (like Tags) if you want more than 1 member.

Quote being grey is probably an Anti-Spam tactic applied to new users. I'm not sure if a Greenie Mod can whitelist a user early
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