Genres

philandjan · 07-19-2011, 10:31 AM

Please excuse me if I am asking a question that has been asked many, many times but I find the search facility in MobileRead to be very inflexible and infuriating (unless it is me being thick and not seeing how to limit my search to just one forum!).

I have finally got my head around using genre to classify my library rather than tags.

However, what I haven't yet got my head around is where to download genre information from. Is there one good source, probably with a limit of 50 genres? And if there is, can I download it along with the metadata?

My thanks, in advance, to all you wizzy wizards who will undoubtedly point a doddery old git in the right direction

jbcohen · 07-19-2011, 11:36 AM

What I have done is to pick a interent book store and mimic their catagories, in my case borders. I looked at the borders web site and their catagory listings that they show and structured my library to mimic them.

Pinecone · 07-19-2011, 01:32 PM

WRT to the search, use the Search This Forum on the menu bar for the forum. This is the lower menyu bar, just above the forum list.

user_none · 07-19-2011, 02:30 PM

I believe the goodreads metadata plugin (look in the plugin subforum) does this when it pulls the info.

07-19-2011, 10:31 AM	#1
philandjan Trainee Old Git Posts: 78 Karma: 162 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Dégagnac, France Device: Kindle	Genres Please excuse me if I am asking a question that has been asked many, many times but I find the search facility in MobileRead to be very inflexible and infuriating (unless it is me being thick and not seeing how to limit my search to just one forum!). I have finally got my head around using genre to classify my library rather than tags. However, what I haven't yet got my head around is where to download genre information from. Is there one good source, probably with a limit of 50 genres? And if there is, can I download it along with the metadata? My thanks, in advance, to all you wizzy wizards who will undoubtedly point a doddery old git in the right direction

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07-19-2011, 11:36 AM	#2
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	What I have done is to pick a interent book store and mimic their catagories, in my case borders. I looked at the borders web site and their catagory listings that they show and structured my library to mimic them.

07-19-2011, 01:32 PM	#3
Pinecone Guru Posts: 902 Karma: 1660722 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Maryland Device: PRS-650, PRS-600, PRS-350	WRT to the search, use the Search This Forum on the menu bar for the forum. This is the lower menyu bar, just above the forum list.

07-19-2011, 02:30 PM	#4
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	I believe the goodreads metadata plugin (look in the plugin subforum) does this when it pulls the info.

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