Kind of magazines mode?

[lanark]

Hi, I'm pretty new to Calibre, and one thing I've began to do is migrating my e-magazines collection. I'm aware that Calibre is mainly orientated to books, with authors, etc. I've used the 'author' field for the magazine name and I'm thinking of hijack other fields also for magazine issue, subject, etc.
In doing so, I've been thinking that a kind of "magazine mode" would be cool.
Is that possible, conceivable or even useful for any other person than me?

Thanks!

[itimpi]

I have used the Series field to identify the magazine, and the series number to indicate the issue. The fact that you can have fractional values there means I can use a series number of something like 2010.01 to indicate January 2010. That together with a "Magazine" tag allows me to easily have a virtual "magazine" library.

[Manichean]

If you don't like using the author field for the magazine name, you could always go ahead and add a custom column for the magazine title and/or another one for the issue.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by lanark

Hi, I'm pretty new to Calibre, and one thing I've began to do is migrating my e-magazines collection. I'm aware that Calibre is mainly orientated to books, with authors, etc. I've used the 'author' field for the magazine name and I'm thinking of hijack other fields also for magazine issue, subject, etc.
In doing so, I've been thinking that a kind of "magazine mode" would be cool.
Is that possible, conceivable or even useful for any other person than me?

Thanks!

You describe one facet of the compiled-works problem. The same thing pops up with edited books, omnibus editions, conference proceedings, and the like. To correctly (for some definition of correct) handle these cases, one needs hierarchical books (books within books).

There is no clean way in calibre to deal with this. The closest I have seen is to create a 'book' for the magazine, putting the volume and issue into the series. Then create a 'book' for each article, using the same series w/volume+issue, but using the page number as the series index. Only the outermost book (the one without the series index) has content.

Clearly this is not optimal. It does permit searching for articles by author, title, magazine, issue, and what-have-you, but at the cost of having a large number of empty books.

[lanark]

Thanks for your answers! I will use itimpi solution, it's discret and useful, by the moment.
Anyway, it would be nice to have a "magazine" and a "compilation" mode (for the kind of cases that chaley describes).