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Originally Posted by Aka
I can't imagine how you'd non-manually manage your collections though unless you simply don't have any? They are never automatically generated when I convert a book, so rather than browse 500+ books by name, especially when they are more like chapters of a single book, I add them to collections with the title of the book or series.
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I have many Series that have 20+ books and when sent to the device a collection is automatically created by Calibre and the books end up in series order within the collection. For these books I use the series area in the metadata and give each book a different number from 1- ???
When I send books to my device I have calibre create collections based on tags and series (the default setting). So a book from Asimov's Foundation series will be in the Foundation collection. The same book may also be in other collections such as Hugo Best Novel, Top 100 Sci-fi, Science Fiction. Currently I have 246 books on my reader and 69 collections.
I limit my tags and try to keep it simple, but I may, at the most, have 3 tags and 1 series per book. This means a book may be in 4 collections at the same time, but there is only one copy of the file on the reader.
Doing collections this way means that on the rare occasion my reader might reboot and trash the collections, Deleting the books and resending them puts everything back exactly as it was and it only takes minutes not 12 hours.
You're right, the Sony software will work and won't sneak up you with an upgrade. Calibre is over the hump in regards to the issue you faced and most likely won't sneak up on you for a while either.