Creating Catalogs (Archived)

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by GRiker

@banjomike:
If a book is part of a series, the title is rendered as <series> <series index>: <title>.

So, if title = Murder on the Orient Express and
series = Hercule Poirot Mysteries and
series index = 10, the title will be listed and sorted as:
Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

G

So there isn't a Title list as such, it is more of a Series list with non-series titles mixed in.

Would there be any chance of an option to have a Title list just based on Titles, or with the series AFTER the title/author?

[GRiker]

@banjomike:

To clarify, assume that you have two books by Agatha Christie in your library, And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express.

And Then There Were None is not part of a series.
Murder on the Orient Express is book 10 of the series Hercule Poirot Mysteries.

Current display style:

Authors, Genres and Recently Added:
C
 Agatha Christie
  And Then There Were None
  ------------------------------
  Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

Titles:
A
 And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
H
 Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

Your preference:

Authors, Genres and Recently Added:
C
 Agatha Christie
  And Then There Were None
  ------------------------------
  Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

Titles:
A
 And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
M
 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10) - Agatha Christie

Is that what you're asking for?

G

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by GRiker

@banjomike:

To clarify, assume that you have two books by Agatha Christie in your library, And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express.

And Then There Were None is not part of a series.
Murder on the Orient Express is book 10 of the series Hercule Poirot Mysteries.

Current display style:

Authors, Genres and Recently Added:
C
 Agatha Christie
  And Then There Were None
  ------------------------------
  Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

Titles:
A
 And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
H
 Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

Your preference:

Authors, Genres and Recently Added:
C
 Agatha Christie
  And Then There Were None
  ------------------------------
  Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10: Murder on the Orient Express

Titles:
A
 And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
M
 Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10) - Agatha Christie

Is that what you're asking for?

G

Yes.
I'm missing my alphabetical list of books.

Having said that, if you want to make the Recently Added list sortable with the most recent at the top (as the Sony date option shows them) that would be OK as well.

[jackie_w]

@GRiker

I'd just like to tell you how much I love this new Catalog feature and how impressed I have been with your quick and positive responses to all the enhancement tickets I raised.

Now a question...

Is there a CSS file I can edit to do minor tweaks to personalise the standard CSS used to display the Catalog EPUB (e.g. font-size, font-weight for headings like Author_Name, Series_Name).

Obviously I know I can manually tweak the CSS inside the output Catalog EPUB, but changing it before creation would be faster. Especially since my Catalog is big enough to need to create it in manageable portions.

[GRiker]

@jackie_w: You can edit the catalog's stylesheet.css, which is located in calibre/Resources/resources/catalog/stylesheet.css. (That's where it is my Mac app bundle, it should be in approximately the same location on other installs.)

@banjomike: I'll take a look at what's necessary to do the changes you request.

If anyone else feels strongly about the presentation style of titles, series, etc, this would be a good time to speak up, as I need to move onto some other items on the to-do list.

G

[theducks]

Originally Posted by GRiker

@jackie_w: You can edit the catalog's stylesheet.css, which is located in calibre/Resources/resources/catalog/stylesheet.css. (That's where it is my Mac app bundle, it should be in approximately the same location on other installs.)

@banjomike: I'll take a look at what's necessary to do the changes you request.

If anyone else feels strongly about the presentation style of titles, series, etc, this would be a good time to speak up, as I need to move onto some other items on the to-do list.

G

Could you consider changing the font style for the series
when on the same line as the title? It sort of runstogether and the title does not stand out on a small screen.
Thanks for the tip on the style sheet, I might learn to make this work my way

[GRiker]

@theducks: Are you talking about in the Titles Section? If so, please refer to #167 above where I describe the proposed layout:
Title (series series_index) - Author
The series/series index would be in parentheses, setting it apart from the title and author.

G

[theducks]

Originally Posted by GRiker

@theducks: Are you talking about in the Titles Section? If so, please refer to #167 above where I describe the proposed layout:
Title (series series_index) - Author
The series/series index would be in parentheses, setting it apart from the title and author.

G

Yes,
That would do fine. Thanks

While I am stirring the idea pot

Some books have Multiple authors; eg. Weber & Ringo
Calibre does not cross index authors in the Author list.

Can the Catalog be made to do this for Authors?
Weber: same title
Ringo: same title

I don't know about other publishers or Genere's, but Baen seems to be notorious for series with 1 or more differing Author combinations

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by theducks

Yes,
That would do fine. Thanks

While I am stirring the idea pot

Some books have Multiple authors; eg. Weber & Ringo
Calibre does not cross index authors in the Author list.

Can the Catalog be made to do this for Authors?
Weber: same title
Ringo: same title

I don't know about other publishers or Genere's, but Baen seems to be notorious for series with 1 or more differing Author combinations

If you mean like this:
Weber & Ringo: same title
Ringo & Weber: same title

then I would go for it.

To clarify my suggestion above on the Recently Added sorting, I would like a choice of sorting by most recent first (especially for the MOST recent as I use the date added menu on my Sony to keep track of where I am in my book transferring and this option would make the catalog similarly organized). I expect many people would prefer how you have it at the moment especially for months in the distant past.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by banjomike

If you mean like this:
Weber & Ringo: same title
Ringo & Weber: same title

then I would go for it.

To clarify my suggestion above on the Recently Added sorting, I would like a choice of sorting by most recent first (especially for the MOST recent as I use the date added menu on my Sony to keep track of where I am in my book transferring and this option would make the catalog similarly organized). I expect many people would prefer how you have it at the moment especially for months in the distant past.

Yes. Current filing is under the first Author.
Only search will find the second Author (in any combination)
I have "My_Catalog" on the main storage of my device, and it is most handy since the device does not have any option except folders.

[jackie_w]

@GRiker, Here's my 2p's worth:-

1. I like the Authors and Genres sections exactly as they are in v6.40.
   However, if I've interpreted correctly, I quite like theducks's idea of a book with 2 authors appearing twice in the Authors section. But it would need to be decided whether the 2 classifications would be
   (a) R - Ringo and W - Weber
   or
   (b) R - Ringo & Weber and W - Weber & Ringo
   
   The former would be neater because all Ringos would be sorted together rather than split over "Ringo only" and (possibly many) "Ringo & ANOther". The latter would be easier to see which books had 2 authors and which had single.
   
   
2. For the Titles section, I would think the logical display sequence/appearance would be as per suggestion, i.e. primary sortkey = Title ascending
   

   Titles:
   A
     And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
   M
     Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries 10) - Agatha Christie

3. For the Recently_Added section - personally I like it exactly as it is in v6.40.

However, as the Titles and Recently_Added sections are the ones I will use least, perhaps I am not best placed to say.

[GRiker]

wrt cross-referenced multiple authors, feel free to create a feature request ticket, that's something that really needs to be coordinated with a general calibre feature.

G

[GRiker]

wrt to Recently Added ...
How about if the first group in the Recently Added Section was "Last 30 days", then grouped by month as it currently is?

Recently Added
 Last 30 Days
  title added 1 hour ago
  title added 2 hours ago
  title added yesterday
  title added 2 days ago
  ...
  title added 30 days ago
 February 2010
  (by author, as in 0.6.40)
 January 2010
  (by author, as in 0.6.40)
 ...

I prefer avoiding lots of complicated switches.

G

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by GRiker

wrt to Recently Added ...
How about if the first group in the Recently Added Section was "Last 30 days", then grouped by month as it currently is?

That looks like a good compromise.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by GRiker

wrt to Recently Added ...
How about if the first group in the Recently Added Section was "Last 30 days", then grouped by month as it currently is?

Recently Added
 Last 30 Days
  title added 1 hour ago
  title added 2 hours ago
  title added yesterday
  title added 2 days ago
  ...
  title added 30 days ago
 February 2010
  (by author, as in 0.6.40)
 January 2010
  (by author, as in 0.6.40)
 ...

I prefer avoiding lots of complicated switches.

G

Perfect!