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How to organize library to effectively use server feature via Moon+ Reader
Moon+ Reader offers the ability to browse my Calibre library and directly download to my phone. However, my ability to utilize this feature is hampered by the limited options to view and sort my library. Trying to figure out what I can change to make this more useful.
Example use case that I'm trying to solve for: I want to look at books with tag A, that are marked unread (custom column) and are displayed from newest added to oldest. I can easily make a saved search for the tag and the read status, but I can't figure out how to view the results sorted by date added. In Moon+, there are several options to view my library: By tag, by saved searches or by date added. But all options (except date added) return results in alphabetical order. And date added cannot be further refined to filter by tag or anything else, it's a listing of my entire library. If saved searches also had a sort order, it'd work perfectly, but from posts here it sounds like that's not supported. How can I sort a saved search, or if that isn't an option, what can I change or add to my library to accomplish the task? |
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In case anyone else stumbles on this thread, I was not able to find a great solution.
The best I could do was create more saved searches, especially several with different date added range filters (last 30/90 days, last year). The results are still returned in alpha order, but at least the results are less now. I also added saved searches for different ratings since I can't order by rating (at least not with any other filters). So now I have multiple saved searches for every combination of tag + rating I think I'll use. |
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Sorry, but you have it backwards and should be asking in MOON+ on how to make it work with Calibre the way you want.
Think I am wrong? Open the WEB Browser on your PC and sign into the content server. Click search. (see image). Those are what I can use to find books (NOTE that even Calibre's 'Saved Searches' is available. There was no need to bastardize (organizational trickery) the data entered in Calibre, just write that magic search and save it for use on a remote device. If your device can't use that...it is a devices limitation, not Calibre. (FWIW The metadata plugboard is a feature to use to trick devices into doing things the designers left out, while leaving the Library data pristine and usable by less limited devices ![]() Calibre is a database. You should not have to 'organize' it to access and use it. It is Organized in a manner that allows books to be found by many criteria (the most common being: Title, Author, Series . but that is not the limit.) All the rest are things you supply the MDE (someway) upon adding the book are allowed. FWIW I mostly used Moon+ with Calibre Companion (Back when it was good) as an alternate way of seeing my edits on a device NOT my EZReader OR as lenient as a Web Browser based (includes Calibre Viewer) . FWIW every device has its foibles. Calibre is too easy going. Older ADE finekey. Kindles (old mobi) just limited (no CSS). The real book wranglers out there lost a lot of hair trying to make books work on a wide range of devices without multiple device dependent releases (a maintenance nightmare) |
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Free version Pocketbook on Android works nicely with Calibre Content server and better respects CSS than Moonreader.
Only tick the mandatory check box on install. |
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Unfortunately I heavily use the Name Replacement and TTS Override (basically regex find & replace for book viewing and TTS reading respectively) functions of Moon+. Pocketbook doesn't appear to have an equivalent function, but thank you for the recommendation. |
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