T3 Collections - book number?

Coops · 01-19-2014, 06:32 PM

In Calibre I've setup for example all the metadata in some of my Le Carre novels, so that they are in a 'George Smiley' collection. I also had them numbered in Calibre (1 of 8 etc),as i'm not one to memorise the order of a series..

The T3 shows up the George Smiley Collection just fine.. but no indication of which one is which ie what order they are in the series.

Am i missing something deviously hidden.. or is it just not the done Sony thing and brute force of renaming titles to include the series number in brackets or such like is needed?

Not a disaster, of course, and I don't expect Sony to necessarily be able to use all Calibre's metadata... but just curious.

Ripplinger · 01-19-2014, 06:46 PM

In Calibre, I've set up the Metadata Plugboards in Preferences so the books are named Title [#] Series. They also appear within the Collections lists in correct numerical order on the 350 as well, not sure if the T3 will also do that.

For the 350 reader, under Add new plugboard, select "device_db" and "PRS-505" (those 2 might be different for your reader). My source template is the following, destination field "Title":
{title} {series_index:|[|]} {series}

You can of course change the sequence around to whatever you want between the title, series title and number within the series.

Coops · 01-19-2014, 07:49 PM

Thanks - i'll give that a go when i'm back home. I loved my blue 350... glad to say the T3 is very good too.

Calibre is marvellous.

palo · 02-12-2014, 04:23 PM

Simplest thing in the world - just add 01 or 02 or 03 to beginning of the the title

"Gone With The Wind" would become "01 Gone With The Wind"

the second book would become "02 Back With The Sun" (or some such title)

Put your numbering at the beginning of the title so it shows even on long titles that get

cut off and as well they will be ordered by the number you give them.

Make sure you use two digit numbering otherwise 1 will be followed by 11 (that's how

computers number sort)

I have all my collections set with the author as the only tag - when I click on an author

it opens to show all his books in the order that I have numbered them.

If you have an author with more than one series, just add an identifier at the beginning of

the title. In your example "Le Carre" would be the tag and his George Smiley novels would

be "GS 01 A Call for the Dead" and next "GS 02 A Murder of Quality" etc - I don't want a lot

of "collections to sort through, just the authors names

p

cybmole · 02-13-2014, 02:24 AM

can this be doing in the send to device plugboard preferences instead. I don't see an option for my sony T2 / T3 readers on the add plugboard options
maybe I already get series, I don't know how to interpret the syntax, but my default send-to-device save template is:
{author_sort}/{series}{series_index:>3s} - {title} - {authors}
what's that in english ?
& what should it be to add series number if it is not already doing that ?

01-19-2014, 06:32 PM	#1
Coops Zealot Posts: 129 Karma: 77756 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle Oasis, Sony T3 backup	T3 Collections - book number? In Calibre I've setup for example all the metadata in some of my Le Carre novels, so that they are in a 'George Smiley' collection. I also had them numbered in Calibre (1 of 8 etc),as i'm not one to memorise the order of a series.. The T3 shows up the George Smiley Collection just fine.. but no indication of which one is which ie what order they are in the series. Am i missing something deviously hidden.. or is it just not the done Sony thing and brute force of renaming titles to include the series number in brackets or such like is needed? Not a disaster, of course, and I don't expect Sony to necessarily be able to use all Calibre's metadata... but just curious.

02-12-2014, 04:23 PM	#4
palo Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 28 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: Sony T2	Simplest thing in the world - just add 01 or 02 or 03 to beginning of the the title "Gone With The Wind" would become "01 Gone With The Wind" the second book would become "02 Back With The Sun" (or some such title) Put your numbering at the beginning of the title so it shows even on long titles that get cut off and as well they will be ordered by the number you give them. Make sure you use two digit numbering otherwise 1 will be followed by 11 (that's how computers number sort) I have all my collections set with the author as the only tag - when I click on an author it opens to show all his books in the order that I have numbered them. If you have an author with more than one series, just add an identifier at the beginning of the title. In your example "Le Carre" would be the tag and his George Smiley novels would be "GS 01 A Call for the Dead" and next "GS 02 A Murder of Quality" etc - I don't want a lot of "collections to sort through, just the authors names p Last edited by palo; 02-12-2014 at 04:34 PM.

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01-19-2014, 06:46 PM	#2
Ripplinger 350 Hoarder Posts: 3,574 Karma: 8281267 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Midwest USA Device: Sony PRS-350, Kobo Glo & Glo HD, PW2	In Calibre, I've set up the Metadata Plugboards in Preferences so the books are named Title [#] Series. They also appear within the Collections lists in correct numerical order on the 350 as well, not sure if the T3 will also do that. For the 350 reader, under Add new plugboard, select "device_db" and "PRS-505" (those 2 might be different for your reader). My source template is the following, destination field "Title": {title} {series_index:\|[\|]} {series} You can of course change the sequence around to whatever you want between the title, series title and number within the series.

01-19-2014, 07:49 PM	#3
Coops Zealot Posts: 129 Karma: 77756 Join Date: May 2009 Device: Kindle Oasis, Sony T3 backup	Thanks - i'll give that a go when i'm back home. I loved my blue 350... glad to say the T3 is very good too. Calibre is marvellous.

02-13-2014, 02:24 AM	#5
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	can this be doing in the send to device plugboard preferences instead. I don't see an option for my sony T2 / T3 readers on the add plugboard options maybe I already get series, I don't know how to interpret the syntax, but my default send-to-device save template is: {author_sort}/{series}{series_index:>3s} - {title} - {authors} what's that in english ? & what should it be to add series number if it is not already doing that ?

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