Nine fun surprises about my Sony 600

[doreenjoy]

Originally Posted by banjobama

Your first paragraph is correct.

I'm pretty sure you have to add the books in the order you want them to appear in your collection.When I add books to Collections using Calibre, the new ones just get added to the end of the list that already exists.

This is the only reason I still use the Sony software. The ability to drag books into whatever order I want in the Collections (and then synch to my Reader) is great.

[HorridRedDog]

Originally Posted by banjobama

Your first paragraph is correct.

I'm pretty sure you have to add the books in the order you want them to appear in your collection.When I add books to Collections using Calibre, the new ones just get added to the end of the list that already exists.

You can change the numbers in the []s. Ex. Good story [1] to Good story [7].

Originally Posted by doreenjoy

This is the only reason I still use the Sony software. The ability to drag books into whatever order I want in the Collections (and then synch to my Reader) is great.

When you add "Good Story, More Adventures" to the Good Story series it will automatically become the next part of the series Good story [8].

[Tanzaku]

I must not be "getting" it in this thread. All I've done is to create a series in Calibre, use the series number to define the sequence order and then upload to my Reader. The books show up as a Collection in the correct sequence. Just that simple. In other words, I don't use tags to create a series, I just use the series to create a series. I only use tags for genre information.



Here you can see the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn. This shows up in my Sony 600 as a collection titled "Mitch Rapp" with the books listed in the proper sequence. Easy as pie.

Am I missing something?
Brooks

[doreenjoy]

Originally Posted by HorridRedDog

When you add "Good Story, More Adventures" to the Good Story series it will automatically become the next part of the series Good story [8].

I alphabetize *ALL* the titles in a collection, not just titles in a series. I also frequently add new titles, and Calibre would put them at the bottom of the list in each Collection.

Using your example, every time I added a new book to a collection, it would be out of order unless I deleted all the books from the Reader, then re-named them, then reuploaded them.

Hence why I prefer to use the Sony Library, where I can sort alphabetically, or drag and drop into any order I please, without having to add numbers like I'm sorting filenames in DOS.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Tanzaku

I started using Calibre to organize my 800+ books with tags and consistent author naming conventions. After uploading the files to the 600 using Calibre, I was pleasantly surprised to see the Sony had automatically created "collections" based on the tags. Unexpected and very neat! I never used collections on my 505 because they were a bit cumbersome to create. Not now!

Nice post, all good things to consider when changing to the 600. Of course Calibre works the same with either the 505, 300, 600, 900 etc... Just the same I'm glad you found and are enjoying the "new" collections you've created.

[Mike_73]

Collections are ok, especially if you have multiple tags going on one file. On the other side, I still prefer using folders to organize my files. PRS+ does a good job as a firmware upgrade for the 505. I'm sorry that the "russification" doesn't have that feature (yet).