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Originally Posted by Demonthus
Hi I have made an account just to say this: 0.7.0 completely screwed up my reader's collection organization.
I've had about 700 works organized into 10 collections at this point, using criteria such as new fiction, old fiction, science, etc. Due to my e-reader's slow refresh rate, it helps to know exactly where books are located.
However, this latest version of calibre automatically "updated metadata" on my books, effectively turning 10 collections into 200. My previously meticulously created collections have been destroyed, and the books have been scattered to the wind. A good deal of my books had no metadata, so calibre put each one in it's own collection based on title. Shall I find a novel in "Pesticides", "Man-Woman Relationships, Drama" or perhaps "Sisters -- Fiction"? Needless to say it defeats the concept of collections if each collection has only a couple books.
Of course, I don't want to be entirely pessimistic so I offer the suggestions that you create a setting for automatically re-organizing the entire reader. I know the easiest thing would have been to not update calibre, or (God forbid) stuck to Sony's Reader Library.
Anyway, I'll return to spending the next several hours deleting books and re-adding them  |
I actually just signed up to say the same thing. Demonthus knows what he's talking about. I have a Sony PRS-505 reader, and typically if I started Calibre, it would detect my reader a few seconds after loading and display it and the icon for its memory card. When I upgraded from 0.6.54 to 0.7.2, I started the program as always, then for about 2 minutes the activity list said it was updating metadata. Then I did a pretty typical task - converted a comic from CBZ to LRF and sent it to the reader's card. When I disconnected, my reader churned for about 5-10 minutes; I've never seen it take this long. I almost thought it had crashed or something. Then I had almost a hundred collections! Any metadata anywhere in my files, often PDF, turned into a collection. It took forever to find the ones I'd created. The comic I converted also had an auto generated cover on it, which had always been turned off in previous versions.
I plugged the reader back in, but it seems there's no way to edit collections on books already on the reader, so I'm going to have to wipe it and start from scratch now! Luckily I started saving backup images of it since a previous version locked up when sending books to the reader and nuked the XML file with bookmarks and tags in it, so I can rewind a couple of weeks, figure out what I've added since then and skip ahead to where I've read in each book.
I really appreciate all the work being put into Calibre for free, with seemingly tireless work being put into new features and devices, but what just happened was nearly calamitous. I'm going to stick to 0.6.55 until a feature I can't live without gets added because I can't justify this kind of risk regularly.