mohawk33

[mohawk33]

I've been using Calibre for about a month on a laptop and a tablet...........very happy with the ease of use.
I have 2 questions, first is it possible to sort my titles by author.
Also how to transfer my library from laptop to my tablet library possibly using a USB thumb drive.
Also a comment about Linux.......my son set me up with it on my laptop and although it as somewhat different from windows when I get more comfortable with it, I'd likely replace my Win 8.1 in the not too distant future.
Hopefully someone has an answer for me.

[eschwartz]

Indeed we do, but this is the Introduce Yourself subforum. In the future please post calibre questions to the calibre subforum.
I've reported this thread so hopefully a moderator will move it shortly -- no worries, I am sure they are used to new members getting it wrong at first.

[eschwartz]

To answer your question, if you click on the column headers, it will sort by those columns, but you can set the default sort in Preferences ==> Tweaks

e.g. I use

#: Specify columns to sort the booklist by on startup
# ID: sort_columns_at_startup
# Provide a set of columns to be sorted on when calibre starts
# The argument is None if saved sort history is to be used
# otherwise it is a list of column,order pairs. Column is the
# lookup/search name, found using the tooltip for the column
# Order is 0 for ascending, 1 for descending
# For example, set it to [('authors',0),('title',0)] to sort by
# title within authors.
sort_columns_at_startup = [('authors', 0), ('series', 0), ('title', 0)]

You might just want to use

sort_columns_at_startup = [('authors', 0)]

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You can plug your tablet into the computer and calibre will recognize it and allow you to "Send-to-Device".

[Dr. Drib]

If you have any questions, ask them in the calibre forum, please.

This is the Introduce Yourself Forum, which is for.....Introductions.

This thread is now closed.


Don
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