Thread: [GUI Plugin] Kobo Utilities
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Old 11-17-2021, 11:54 PM   #2324
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Personally, I never found them that useful as I just ended up with several hundred collections with one or two books in them.
After writing that, I wondered if it was possible to still have the series info but not have the series in the Series tab. And it is (with a little database manipulation).

The reason for the test is that one of the things I think that is missing from the series tab, is being able to filter the list. I'd like to be able to hide all series with only one book. Or some other small number of books. I can sort by number of books, but, if I am looking for something, then alphabetical sorting works better for me. Not showing the one- or two-book series would be useful. Of course, it would be even better to filter based on the number of unread books, but, Kobo would have to do that.

What I am thinking of doing is to add an option to the driver to set the minimum number of books in a series for the values used by the Series tab to be set. The displayed series info will still be set, so it will show in the book lists and should sort correctly (which I have to test) and will be searchable. It won't affect purchased books as Kobo sets those details. And if the series is a mix of purchased and sideloaded, I will probably set the full series info for the sideloaded books as well no matter what the setting.

Right now I am still thinking about it. I haven't looked at the code to see if it is practical there. But, I have experimented with the database and it seems to work as I want. And I have no idea when I would do it. But, I'm putting it out there to see if it would help others.
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