How do I keep sets of books together when filing for easily locating?

Heathside Boy · 04-06-2012, 10:31 AM

There is surely an easy answer to this but I cannot find it.

Looking at my collection of books within Calibre, they are all over the place and not filed together as tidy selections.

For example; I can see two Harry Potter books at the top, two halfway down and the others scattered all over the place. Ben Bova novels are also scattered all over the place and some Stephen King novels are together but others are scattered.

Can anybody tell me how I keep sets of books together when filing for easily locating?

Thanks

HB

itimpi · 04-06-2012, 11:37 AM

There is no pre-defined order. If you click on a column header then books will be sorted by that field. I am not sure what you are currently sorted on, but it sounds as if it might be something like added order.

The only potential 'gotcha' When clicking on a column header to sort is that author and title have associated fields author_sort and title_sort and clicking on the author or titles fields sorts according their associated sort fields so you need to check this if ou do not get the expected results.

Heathside Boy · 04-06-2012, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by itimpi

There is no pre-defined order. If you click on a column header then books will be sorted by that field. I am not sure what you are currently sorted on, but it sounds as if it might be something like added order.

The only potential 'gotcha' When clicking on a column header to sort is that author and title have associated fields author_sort and title_sort and clicking on the author or titles fields sorts according their associated sort fields so you need to check this if ou do not get the expected results.

Of course, so simple when you know how!

Thank you itimpi

HB

04-06-2012, 10:31 AM	#1
Heathside Boy HB Posts: 120 Karma: 38 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: Nook for PC / Calibre	How do I keep sets of books together when filing for easily locating? There is surely an easy answer to this but I cannot find it. Looking at my collection of books within Calibre, they are all over the place and not filed together as tidy selections. For example; I can see two Harry Potter books at the top, two halfway down and the others scattered all over the place. Ben Bova novels are also scattered all over the place and some Stephen King novels are together but others are scattered. Can anybody tell me how I keep sets of books together when filing for easily locating? Thanks HB

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04-06-2012, 11:37 AM	#2
itimpi Wizard Posts: 4,553 Karma: 950151 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: Sony PRS-950, iphone/ipad (Marvin/iBooks/QuickReader)	There is no pre-defined order. If you click on a column header then books will be sorted by that field. I am not sure what you are currently sorted on, but it sounds as if it might be something like added order. The only potential 'gotcha' When clicking on a column header to sort is that author and title have associated fields author_sort and title_sort and clicking on the author or titles fields sorts according their associated sort fields so you need to check this if ou do not get the expected results.

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