Touch Author and Series Indexing?

jjansen · 10-20-2013, 03:06 PM

I am sorry if this is already answered but I couldn't find it. I am looking at a Kobo Touch for my mother. I will be loading all her books from Calibre. There will probably be 1,000 books on it. Using standard software does the Kobo Touch give a list of authors that you can then select from to filter the books displayed? Can you also get a list of series so that you can then choose one? I saw a thread about creating bookshelves for each series but Mum will have more than a hundred series so that won't be appropriate. She also has arthritis very badly. I am hoping that the Touch is quite sensitive and easy to flip pages.

If the Touch doesn't display indexes or lists of authors and/or series does one of the other Kobo devices? Thanks.........Jackie

PeterT · 10-20-2013, 03:09 PM

You can have calibre automate entirely thje making of shelves baded on items such as series name or Author.

speakingtohe · 10-21-2013, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by jjansen

I am sorry if this is already answered but I couldn't find it. I am looking at a Kobo Touch for my mother. I will be loading all her books from Calibre. There will probably be 1,000 books on it. Using standard software does the Kobo Touch give a list of authors that you can then select from to filter the books displayed? Can you also get a list of series so that you can then choose one? I saw a thread about creating bookshelves for each series but Mum will have more than a hundred series so that won't be appropriate. She also has arthritis very badly. I am hoping that the Touch is quite sensitive and easy to flip pages.

If the Touch doesn't display indexes or lists of authors and/or series does one of the other Kobo devices? Thanks.........Jackie

I don't have a touch or a glo, but I think the glo may be a better choice. I have a mini and an Aura HD and I far prefer the mini. It is small and light and I can read fine with almost as much text displayed per page as my larger readers. Unless your mother needs really large fonts you might consider the mini. About $50.

Helen

PS shelves work much the same as the Sony collections using calibre.

10-20-2013, 03:06 PM	#1
jjansen J Posts: 205 Karma: 12590 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Canada Device: SONY PRS 505/300, iRex DR800SG, Nook	Author and Series Indexing? I am sorry if this is already answered but I couldn't find it. I am looking at a Kobo Touch for my mother. I will be loading all her books from Calibre. There will probably be 1,000 books on it. Using standard software does the Kobo Touch give a list of authors that you can then select from to filter the books displayed? Can you also get a list of series so that you can then choose one? I saw a thread about creating bookshelves for each series but Mum will have more than a hundred series so that won't be appropriate. She also has arthritis very badly. I am hoping that the Touch is quite sensitive and easy to flip pages. If the Touch doesn't display indexes or lists of authors and/or series does one of the other Kobo devices? Thanks.........Jackie

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10-20-2013, 03:09 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,706 Karma: 79983758 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	You can have calibre automate entirely thje making of shelves baded on items such as series name or Author.