How to send books from different libraries to different folders on device?

[LucyOne]

I have two libraries and one device (Pocketbook Touch Lux) with a folder structure. I would like to have the books from the first library in Folder A and the books from the second library in Folder B on my device. Is it possible to do this automatically?

[Adoby]

One way you could test is to add the value of a custom column to the template used when saving the books. For instance a column named "folder" and put an "A" or a "B" in that column for each book.

{#folder}/{author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}

[kovidgoyal]

The template language includes a function current_library_name()

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/template_lang.html

[LucyOne]

Thanks for the answers, but they both sound a bit complicated for me. For now I use a manual workaround by saving the books from the second library to disk and then transferring them onto my device via Windows Explorer.

[eschwartz]

What is complicated about it? Just copy and paste the supplied templates into the correct box in the Preferences dialogue.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

What is complicated about it? Just copy and paste the supplied templates into the correct box in the Preferences dialogue.

If you are new to calibre you know the step by step is much more complicated then you just insinuated. What features to use to accomplish task, How to create the columns, how to populate the columns, which Save template in calibre to use etc... I'm at work and can't go into the details, but your post was condescending and not well thought out.

[eschwartz]

Click on in the toolbar, and then on "Sending books to devices" (see first screenshot) and in the template editor (see second screenshot) fill in this code:

{:'current_library_name()'}/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

Then all books will be stored in a folder with the same name as the Library, and within that folder, the usual save to device rules will apply, i.e. there will be a folder for the author, and within that, the book will be saved as "author - title.epub"

If necessary, I can change the template to use arbitrary names depending on the folder.

[DoctorOhh]

@eschwartz A much more graceful way of doing it than I would have provided.

[LucyOne]

@eschwartz: Thank you so much for the explanation

One of the folders is named "Books", the other "Teaching". How would that work with the template?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

One of the folders is named "Books", the other "Teaching". How would that work with the template?

I may be wrong, but it looks like all you have to do is follow his template (and instructions) without change and it will create the folders for you when you use the Send to Device feature.

[LucyOne]

Those are the names of the folders on my device. On my computer, the libraries are named differently. I'd rather not rename them if possible.

[eschwartz]

What is the name of each library, and which folder should it be moved to? I will set up a rule to transform each. You will use something like this instead (click on the button "template Editor", next to the box in screenshot #2, above, and paste this whole code box in):

program:
strcat(
	switch(
		current_library_name(),
		'Library1',
		'Teaching',
		'Library2',
		'Books',
		'else'
	),
	template("/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}")
)

But of course it depends what the name of your libraries are, as I doubt they are "Library1" and "Library2", so we will need to change them.

[LucyOne]

The first library is called "Calibre Bibliothek" and should be copied to "Books" on my device.
The second library is called "Calibre Teaching Bibliothek" and should be copied to "Teaching" on my device.

I think I also have to change the field "save template" in the configuration for my device.

Edit: Ok, I changed the code, did some experimenting and figured out what I have to paste where. It works now just how I want it. Thanks a lot for the code!!!

[theducks]

Originally Posted by LucyOne

The first library is called "Calibre Bibliothek" and should be copied to "Books" on my device.
The second library is called "Calibre Teaching Bibliothek" and should be copied to "Teaching" on my device.

I think I also have to change the field "save template" in the configuration for my device.

Edit: Ok, I changed the code, did some experimenting and figured out what I have to paste where. It works now just how I want it. Thanks a lot for the code!!!

You could just rename (use the right click feature on the Library Icon) your Libraries to make things simple

[LucyOne]

Originally Posted by theducks

You could just rename (use the right click feature on the Library Icon) your Libraries to make things simple

Next time, when I do a full backup But everything is working now.