Collection groups

[dodgyr]

What collections do you have on your e-reader?
I am having problems! lol (what else is new?!)
I would normally like to sort into multi level collections, but believe the T1 doesn't do this. ie. type/genre/author/series (eg. Fiction/Fantasy/David Gemmell/Drenai)
So how does everyone organise their collections?
Please give me tips on how I should be doing this!

[Kolenka]

I use Calibre normally. Genre collections from tags. Series as well, although it tends to clutter the collections a bit too much for little benefit depending on how many books you have.

With Calibre you can have it create collections by author, series, or tags (or any combination). But they won't be multi-level. I just let it put a book into both my Fiction and Fantasy collections, and let the genre be my guide.

[dodgyr]

Yeah, the organisation of books within calibre has been great. It is more on the T1 that I am having problems with. Using tags as the collection names, I had 10 books by the same author, and it already had about 40+ collections (which if anything, makes the collection method of looking for a book to read very tedious).
Trying to find a way to categorise my books in collections so that there are minimal intuitive collections so that I can find books to read that fits my mood easily. I thought of using just genre, but then you really have to know your series to find the 'next' book in a series to read (eg. reading a 6 part series and having to know the name of the next part to read). Did you find this or did you find a way around that?
Thanks

[Kolenka]

Calibre has a series field for books. And the T1 driver supports creating collections from those series (default behavior to boot). But each series will get its own collection.

If you sort the collection by "Added Order", it will be in the same order as the series.

[Robert22]

I have my books by genre "Fiction", "Mystery", "Science", etc Then for series I start each series with a special character "*Zen", "*Piorot", "*HitchHiker", etc.

This forces all the genres and all the series to sort together in the collections list. If you have a lot of series you could start each type of series with a different special character "." for mysteries "*" for SciFi etc.

HTH

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by dodgyr

Yeah, the organisation of books within calibre has been great. It is more on the T1 that I am having problems with. Using tags as the collection names, I had 10 books by the same author, and it already had about 40+ collections (which if anything, makes the collection method of looking for a book to read very tedious).

In calibre I have 10000 books and only 240 tags. For tag creation I only use the Goodreads metadata download plugin with the goodreads.json file attached to this post. Using the goodreads plugin for tags limits the amount of downloaded tags to a manageable amount perfectly suited for collections.

Originally Posted by dodgyr

I thought of using just genre, but then you really have to know your series to find the 'next' book in a series to read (eg. reading a 6 part series and having to know the name of the next part to read). Did you find this or did you find a way around that?

I use a couple of calibre tweaks to help me with series. The first tweak is how Sony collections are sorted. The below tweak insures all series based collections will be sorted in series order.

# Specify how SONY collections are sorted
sony_collection_sorting_rules = [(['series'], 'series_index')]

This tweak will add (Series) after any collection based on series, see attached. This helps you quickly locate series amongst all collections.

# Specify renaming rules for SONY collections
sony_collection_name_template = '{value} {category:|(|)}'
sony_collection_renaming_rules = {'series': 'Series'}

On my 950 I use a plugboard that adds series info to be added to the author line (see attached) but I think the jury is still out (read this thread starting here) on whether the finer points of the plugboards will work with the T-1 based on possible limits in author field length.

Have fun with your new toy.

[speakingtohe]

I do the same as Walt with the series name and number appended to the author via plugboard.
I only have author_sort collections as series and tag collections make for too long a list on reader and are not a big benefit to me personally.

Helen

[dodgyr]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

I use a couple of calibre tweaks to help me with series. The first tweak is how Sony collections are sorted. The below tweak insures all series based collections will be sorted in series order.

# Specify how SONY collections are sorted
sony_collection_sorting_rules = [(['series'], 'series_index')]

This tweak will add (Series) after any collection based on series, see attached. This helps you quickly locate series amongst all collections.

# Specify renaming rules for SONY collections
sony_collection_name_template = '{value} {category:|(|)}'
sony_collection_renaming_rules = {'series': 'Series'}

On my 950 I use a plugboard that adds series info to be added to the author line (see attached) but I think the jury is still out (read this thread starting here) on whether the finer points of the plugboards will work with the T-1 based on possible limits in author field length.

Have fun with your new toy.

Are the screenshots you showed the results of the coding for Sony collections or the result of using the plugboard? The screenshots shown is exactly what I think I need. If it is the results of the Sony collection coding, please let me know where in Calibre I input those codes. Thanks!

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by dodgyr

Are the screenshots you showed the results of the coding for Sony collections or the result of using the plugboard? The screenshots shown is exactly what I think I need. If it is the results of the Sony collection coding, please let me know where in Calibre I input those codes. Thanks!

The first screen shot with series appended to the collection name was from the tweak. The second screenshot with the series info in the author line was based off the plugboard I linked to.

[dodgyr]

Can you please advise where in Calibre I should be including those code snippets? Thanks heaps!

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by dodgyr

Can you please advise where in Calibre I should be including those code snippets? Thanks heaps!

Preferences - Tweaks

[SCION]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

Preferences - Tweaks

Thank you. I had the same question, but never posted it. Got distracted!

[frquixote]

dwanthny,

Thanks very much for the tweaks. I've been looking for something like these!

Have some Karma.

[H3lpdesk]

Hi all, I'm in the same boat, but I think I have half a paddle! ..If anyone has the other paddle, can they let me know!

I'm trying to put all this together (and for some strange reason decided to use PowerPoint, as I was playing with a template..., so.... grab a copy here and let me know what you think (be gentle, eh?)
Regards,
Mark

[nausica]

Originally Posted by H3lpdesk

Hi all, I'm in the same boat, but I think I have half a paddle! ..If anyone has the other paddle, can they let me know!

I'm trying to put all this together (and for some strange reason decided to use PowerPoint, as I was playing with a template..., so.... grab a copy here and let me know what you think (be gentle, eh?)
Regards,
Mark

Thanks to your manual , that finally I can send, as it should be, the collections at prs-t1.


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