I just got my new 302 two days ago. I'll post a synopsis of my reaction to the device later, but in the meantime I was able to put ~675 epubs, organized by tag, onto the device in about 20 minutes using the following procedure:
1) Open Calibre (I'm using
0.5.14)
2) Sort the catalog by tags (click on the 'Tags' header)
- This will return the catalog sorted by tags. Note that Calibre only sorts on the first tag listed
3) in the 'Search' field, type tag:{your first tag}
documentation for search feature - This will return a list of titles marked with that tag
4) Select all titles in the search result
- click on a title, then type CNTL-A
5) Click on the little arrow adjacent to the 'Save to disk' option on the top menu bar (On my system, the icon looks like a harddrive)
6) From the 'StD' minimenu, select "save only epub format" (You may or may not see that; I convert all my titles to epub, YMMV)
7) A file select dialog box pops up. I created a new directory {/path/to/ebooks/pb302}/TAGNAME
- Select the TAGNAME directory
8) Repeat steps 3-7 for each unique TAGNAME in your catalog
9) Connect your PB to the computer via the "PC Link" option, and copy the contents of the {/path/to/ebooks}/pb302 directory to the top directory in the PB filesystem
- This may take a while, depending on the size of your catalog and USB port speed
10) Safely unmount the PB device
11) After PB reboots, you will see the collections you made in the 'Books' menu.
This is my first swipe at this problem. If you're like me, you have several books with multiple tags. This method I've outlined
will put duplicate files on your device (one copy in each relevant /TAGNAME directory), so if you're short on memory you may have issues.
Sometime in the next few days I will be writing a script that will look for duplicates in /pb302/* and create symlinks as necessary. I'll post it when I'm finished.