Rearranging order of books stored in Calibre

kapierce65 · 06-10-2012, 03:55 PM

Is there a way I can rearrange the order of which my books appear after I have put them on Calibre? For example, I have an author of which I have 20 of her books. The books that are part of a series are not in order and I want to move them up or down my list. Is this possible?

theducks · 06-10-2012, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kapierce65

Is there a way I can rearrange the order of which my books appear after I have put them on Calibre? For example, I have an author of which I have 20 of her books. The books that are part of a series are not in order and I want to move them up or down my list. Is this possible?

Click on any column heading to sort by that column. Click again to reverse the direction.

When you sort on another column, the (tied) results will be biased by the prior sort

kapierce65 · 06-10-2012, 06:41 PM

Ok...so I did that. But what if I don't want to just reverse the order but change the order within?

kiwidude · 06-10-2012, 06:57 PM

@kapierce65 - calibre has to sort them by "something". Whether that is title, author, series, publication date, a custom column (or any combination thereof) - there has to be some piece of information which it can use to sort the books you see on screen.

Tell us exactly what it is you want to do and someone will have a suggestion. For instance if you are wanting to keep them in an order that you want to read them in, there are a couple of options - you could manually maintain a custom column that you type a number into, or you could use the Reading List plugin which allows you to create ad hoc lists and drag/drop them around in a special dialog. If you say they should be in a series but just don't have the numbers in the order you want, perhaps the Manage Series plugin is the solution. It really does depend exactly what you are trying to achieve.

kapierce65 · 06-10-2012, 07:51 PM

OK...It's kind of hard to explain when writing it down

But here goes, This author is my Calibre looks like this:

Title Author Series
A Fire in the Blood Henke, Shirl
Moon Flower Henke, Shirl Gone to Texas (2)
The Endless Sky Henke, Shirl
Terms of Love Henke, Shirl Colorado Couplet (1)
Sundancer Henke, Shirl
Love Lessons at Midnight Henke, Shirl House of Dreams (1)
Terms of Surrender Henke, Shirl Colorado Couplet (2)

So, what I want to do is move "Terms of Surrender" Colorado Couplet (2) up next to the first book in the series "Terms of Love". I've already got them stored in Calibre and now I want to change the order in which they appear.
Can I do that? Or does it have to be before I transfer them to Calibre?

I hope I explained that better!

dwig · 06-10-2012, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kapierce65

...The books that are part of a series are not in order and I want to move them up or down my list. Is this possible?

You can't manually sort the list.

You can either:

Add a series name and number to the Series field for each of the books in a series and then sort by that column

or:

Add the series name and number to the books' titles and sort by Title.

theducks · 06-10-2012, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kapierce65

OK...It's kind of hard to explain when writing it down

But here goes, This author is my Calibre looks like this:

Title Author Series
A Fire in the Blood Henke, Shirl
Moon Flower Henke, Shirl Gone to Texas (2)
The Endless Sky Henke, Shirl
Terms of Love Henke, Shirl Colorado Couplet (1)
Sundancer Henke, Shirl
Love Lessons at Midnight Henke, Shirl House of Dreams (1)
Terms of Surrender Henke, Shirl Colorado Couplet (2)

So, what I want to do is move "Terms of Surrender" Colorado Couplet (2) up next to the first book in the series "Terms of Love". I've already got them stored in Calibre and now I want to change the order in which they appear.
Can I do that? Or does it have to be before I transfer them to Calibre?

I hope I explained that better!

sort on series should put them together if you put the series name and index in the correct place
TheTitle, Author, Series columns should look like:

Code:

Terms of Love                    Henke, Shirl             Colorado Couplet[1]
Terms of Surrender           Henke, Shirl              Colorado Couplet[2]

kapierce65 · 06-10-2012, 08:14 PM

Thank You so much theducks!! That is exactly what I wanted it to do! Thanks again...

Gunnerp245 · 06-11-2012, 06:11 PM

There is information you can add to tweaks which ensure the title/series/author sort will allows be restored when calibre opens.

A$h X · 06-13-2012, 01:16 PM

Is there way to order the books in the same on the kindle as they are on calibre? I've got them ordered how I want, but when exporting them to my kindle, they seem to be in a semi-random order.

06-10-2012, 03:55 PM	#1
kapierce65 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle Fire	Rearranging order of books stored in Calibre Is there a way I can rearrange the order of which my books appear after I have put them on Calibre? For example, I have an author of which I have 20 of her books. The books that are part of a series are not in order and I want to move them up or down my list. Is this possible?

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06-10-2012, 06:41 PM	#3
kapierce65 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle Fire	Ok...so I did that. But what if I don't want to just reverse the order but change the order within?

06-10-2012, 06:57 PM	#4
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,726 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	@kapierce65 - calibre has to sort them by "something". Whether that is title, author, series, publication date, a custom column (or any combination thereof) - there has to be some piece of information which it can use to sort the books you see on screen. Tell us exactly what it is you want to do and someone will have a suggestion. For instance if you are wanting to keep them in an order that you want to read them in, there are a couple of options - you could manually maintain a custom column that you type a number into, or you could use the Reading List plugin which allows you to create ad hoc lists and drag/drop them around in a special dialog. If you say they should be in a series but just don't have the numbers in the order you want, perhaps the Manage Series plugin is the solution. It really does depend exactly what you are trying to achieve.

06-10-2012, 07:51 PM	#5
kapierce65 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle Fire	OK...It's kind of hard to explain when writing it down But here goes, This author is my Calibre looks like this: Title Author Series A Fire in the Blood Henke, Shirl Moon Flower Henke, Shirl Gone to Texas (2) The Endless Sky Henke, Shirl Terms of Love Henke, Shirl Colorado Couplet (1) Sundancer Henke, Shirl Love Lessons at Midnight Henke, Shirl House of Dreams (1) Terms of Surrender Henke, Shirl Colorado Couplet (2) So, what I want to do is move "Terms of Surrender" Colorado Couplet (2) up next to the first book in the series "Terms of Love". I've already got them stored in Calibre and now I want to change the order in which they appear. Can I do that? Or does it have to be before I transfer them to Calibre? I hope I explained that better!

06-10-2012, 08:14 PM	#8
kapierce65 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle Fire	Thank You so much theducks!! That is exactly what I wanted it to do! Thanks again...

06-11-2012, 06:11 PM	#9
Gunnerp245 Gadget Freak Posts: 1,169 Karma: 1043832 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: US Device: EE, Note 8	There is information you can add to tweaks which ensure the title/series/author sort will allows be restored when calibre opens.

06-13-2012, 01:16 PM	#10
A$h X Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: kindle keyboard	Is there way to order the books in the same on the kindle as they are on calibre? I've got them ordered how I want, but when exporting them to my kindle, they seem to be in a semi-random order.