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Old 05-11-2010, 02:30 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by kacir View Post
There is way to make favorites from PC in bulk, but I am afraid there is no special program for that at the moment.

The system for Favorites on PocketBook is (like the vast majority of features) very, very hacker friendly.
Just add a few favorites, create a few categories and add some books into categories.
Now connect the PocketBook to the PC and have a look at the /system/favorite/ directory.
Each book is represented by a file [some random string].flk
Each of those files has just one line containing the path to the book, like
/mnt/ext1/Books/SciFi/Cory Dostorow/Overclocked.epub

If I had several thousand files I would most probably write a few Vim scripts and shell scripts for creating such structure.

How are your books organized?
Do you have your categories already in some format?
This is beyond my meager scripting abilities.

I currently have them arranged on my reader by author/series/title or author/tag/title or author/title, depending on if the book is part of a series or has a tag. Tags are just to identify a particular universe for books of a series that doesn't have a particular order, i.e. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe or Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. If the books are part of a series I save them with the filename number-title-author, other I save as title-author.

I would like to have a folder on my reader called Collections and within it sub-folders for each series/tag, so I could browse by series as well as by author. This would be especially helpful for things like the 1632 series which is written by multiple authors. I suppose I can just save everything twice, since I have ample room on my card, but that bothers my anal-retentive soul. Plus I won't have the proper "read" icons for all my books.

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