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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Yes, essentially. In fact, the Kobo collections used to be called 'shelves.'
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If you use Calibre, the KoboTouch or KoboTouchExtended driver can be used to set a custom column to auto-populate the collections on the device.
There's no need for series collecitons though - as seen in the screenshot, it's all accessible in its own section. |
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Originally Posted by bluepeter
Yes, though it doesn't always work directly - especially if, like me, you've bought some books in a series from one source and others from another. However, this can also be controlled with Calibre, using the Kobo Touch or Kobo Touch Extended driver.
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Yes, I bought books from many sources. I created a column on Calibre that lists the sources.
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Charles Haley semi-recently added an option in the KoboTouch(Extended) driver to force the series ID. This'll merge them together.
What does force the series ID mean? I assume the books in a series were not staying together? I have a few series that have different authors, so sorting by authors would not give me all books in a series. The extended driver might help.
fwiw, there were a few leftover references in the KoboTouch driver to bookshelves. I made a pull request to change these https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/2525 |
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Originally Posted by bluepeter
Yes. That and the "Set series information" option were what I was talking about.
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Thank you. Once I get the Kobo and start playing with it, I hope I can figure it out.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Yes, Shelves on a Nook is Collections on a Kobo. Same/same.
The Kobo will automatically group the authors for you in the authors view. It will also group series for you in the series view.
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But if a series has multiple authors?
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Originally Posted by ratinox
Functionally very similar with a twist: Collections are not containers. They are tags on books, and a book can have many such tags. Which means that you could have a book "in" your Sci Fi collection, your Sci Fi Faves collection, and your Sci Fi Fav Series collection simultaneously.
The flip side of this design is that because collections are not containers they cannot be nested. You cannot put a collection inside another collection. It took me a while to get over this because it's not how I'm accustomed to organizing my media.
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It will probably take me longer. I have a recipe app that does that so I may have the same recipe listed six times.