Tips and tricks for Calibre

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by maddz

I will say I don't find the manual particularly useful, especially when trying to set up things like plug boards or custom columns. It's mainly because of the coding involved

Perhaps a few examples there would help. Noted for a future tip in the wiki page. There's probably been more than one discussion of those we can pull examples from.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by compurandom

The wiki itself is already set up. Just have to create the page.

What I meant by structure is how do we organize the tricks.
Are there categories? Or (ick) chronologically by when the features were added to calibre?

Might not be able to figure it out until we have enough.

Ah! With you.

I do not know How Much work is involved setting pages up but a simple categorization should work. But I am speaking from a position of sublime ignorance. Something like

A pop level page page would list areas of Calibre for which tips exist (e.g. Editor, plugboard etc)
Each area could link to subpage which either lists the tips for that area or takes you to the only tip for that area. Each item in the list of tips could link to a specific tip.

But any suggestions from someone with more knowledge of Wikis than me (not hard) would be welcome.

Otherwise you may be right and it may be better to delay the wiki until we have a few tips. We could use this thread to start collecting them as you suggested. Or we could start "Post your Calibre Tips & Tricks here" thread.

[compurandom]

No point in making subpages that don't already exist until the page gets big enough to need that.

It makes sense to me to organize them by calibre areas. I think just making a heading for each area, as we get a tip for it makes sense. When there's too many (say 10-20?) under a heading or the entire page is huge, then we can split.

As to delaying -- I don't think we need to delay, but I'm not gonna make a wiki page for two tips.

[theducks]

My pet peeve with the Forum style tricks, is you need to wade thru it all, to find the one you need.

Tips and tricks really needs to be broken down (or linked) by Calibre Version .

Things we did in 1.x became part of later releases (or not needed).
Things in 5.x are not available to folk stuck at 1.x, 2.x 3.x because of OS or old hardware issues.

In a few cases, there are OS tricks that are not needed (or applicable) in the others and cause no end of confusion.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by theducks

My pet peeve with the Forum style tricks, is you need to wade thru it all, to find the one you need.

Tips and tricks really needs to be broken down (or linked) by Calibre Version .

Things we did in 1.x became part of later releases (or not needed).
Things in 5.x are not available to folk stuck at 1.x, 2.x 3.x because of OS or old hardware issues.

In a few cases, there are OS tricks that are not needed (or applicable) in the others and cause no end of confusion.

Good Points. I agree. The index of the tips should also be split by OS and if the tip only applies to prior versions of Calibre it should indicate that in the tip name.

Right I think we are mostly in agreement and have covered many of the issues found in other Tips and Tricks threads..

Lets get the ball rolling. I have a couple of tips and post them in a new "Post your Tips and Tricks Here" thread when I have done so. Unless someone beats me to it.

[compurandom]

Splitting by OS makes a lot of sense. Hopefully the tricks that cover all operating systems would be larger.

Splitting by calibre version doesn't make sense to me and may not even be possible retroactively. But I think lableing every trick we know is version specific (e.g., version 4.x and hgiher) is a good idea.

Splitting by calibre functional area makes sense to me, although it's not clear yet what those divisions are beyond editor, reader, etc.

[compurandom]

do it!
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Cal...ips_and_tricks

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by compurandom

do it!
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Cal...ips_and_tricks

Copying and pasting between timestamps was added in version 4.20.

[rjwse@aol.com]

I have never added to a wiki and am not familiar with contributing. I submitted a tip 'quickly view stylesheet in calibre editor' under 'calibre editor' to see if I did it right. If it is wrong I would appreciate feedback. Best regards, Pop

[compurandom]

Originally Posted by rjwse@aol.com

I have never added to a wiki and am not familiar with contributing.

Looks fine.

[ownedbycats]

Tip: On Kobo devices, add all non-sideloaded books to a "Kobo Store" collection. This way you won't accidentally delete it in Calibre and have to repair your account.

Or just sideload everything. That works too.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Or just sideload everything. That works too.

Best. And you have a backup.

[ownedbycats]

Calibre uses title/author for the [s]Google Image Search[/s] Search the Internet plugin, so if you're getting covers for the wrong edition (or wildly irrelevant images), try pasting the ISBN into Google Image Search. You can use this if you want to try both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13.

EDIT: I can't strikeout?

[theducks]

You could use the Search the Internet Plugin and choose one of the image searches.

[ownedbycats]

The Search the Internet plugin is what got me the weird covers to begin with.