Kobo really rocks

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by DNSB

So how would you organize a book such as the one I listed with and editor and 26 authors into a directory structure that would allow you to locate the book rapidly and, once again, without exceeding path length limits? BTW, that is not the only anthology I own nor is it the one with the most authors, simply one that I had re-read recently.

Yeah, any of the Wildside Megapacks fits your description.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

AFAIR You are involved in professional publishing, etc, but I'm just a reader for fun. I don't need all that. I just dump books into author folders. Done! And I can always do a quick search via the default interface or via the app I'm reading. I can even search inside books. More than adequate for my, and I suspect most readers needs.

I read about x100 more books than involved editing/formatting/publishing. Sometimes more than that. I spend hours reading most days, now without the guilt I had when at school or working during the day. I 99% percent read for fun, though I can call it research if I want to. I'll often read authors I'm not familiar with either old PD titles or cheap books from Charity Shops (money goes to poor, animal welfare or Africa, or disability, or domestic violence shelters depending on the shop. Oxfam though charges nearly as much a supermarket discount, they want rich shoppers. But I support local charities)

[ottdmk]

I miss my Kobo. I am patiently (mostly) waiting to see if the Libra 2 will be put on sale for Black Friday/Boxing Day before buying one to replace my late, lamented Aura H2O v1.

[Pajamaman]

Originally Posted by DNSB

So how would you organize a book such as the one I listed with and editor and 26 authors into a directory structure that would allow you to locate the book rapidly and, once again, without exceeding path length limits? BTW, that is not the only anthology I own nor is it the one with the most authors, simply one that I had re-read recently.

I would either place it under the author folder which is primary to me (general practice is treating the editor as the author), or I would put it in an anthology folder. Also I would put anthology in the filename. I can do a search on all of the above. I don't read that many anthologies, so it's not an issue.

I would have to check, but I presume I could do a filename search on multiple terms. .i.e. Benford Futures Anthology.

I might also be able to search for the author name inside the book, though again, I have never tried. But I don't have 20,000 books on my ereader, which I admit would make it chug a bit.

On a side note, I use an Onyx, which does not use a DB like Kobo to index books. I'm not sure of the best approach, or what the Kobo DB does, or if it is worth it.

How would you organize this book? How would you make it possible to find the book based on all 26 authors in the anthology?

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

How would you organize this book? How would you make it possible to find the book based on all 26 authors in the anthology?

I would simply send the book to my Kobo with a filename consisting of the title followed by the first author. My Kobo will read the metadata from the epub and populate the authors list in the database from there. At that point, I can search on any of the 26 authors and the book will be found. Since it is a live search, depending on the author name, it often does not take that many characters before the name pops up.

For what it's worth, the content.opf contains the following for title/series/author information:

    <dc:title id="id">The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964</dc:title>
    <dc:creator id="id-2">Robert Silverberg</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-3">Stanley G. Weinbaum</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-4">John W. Campbell</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-5">Lester del Rey</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-6">Robert A. Heinlein</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-7">Theodore Sturgeon</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-8">Isaac Asimov</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-9">A. E. van Vogt</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-10">Lewis Padgett</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-11">Clifford D. Simak</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-12">Fredric Brown</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-13">Murray Leinster</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-14">Judith Merril</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-15">Cordwainer Smith</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-16">Ray Bradbury</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-17">C. M. Kornbluth</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-18">Richard Matheson</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-19">Fritz Leiber</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-20">Anthony Boucher</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-21">James Blish</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-22">Arthur C. Clarke</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-23">Jerome Bixby</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-24">Tom Godwin</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-25">Alfred Bester</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-26">Damon Knight</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-27">Daniel Keyes</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-28">Roger Zelazny</dc:creator>
    <meta id="id-29" property="belongs-to-collection">SF Hall of Fame</meta>
    <meta property="collection-type" refines="#id-29">series</meta>
    <meta property="group-position" refines="#id-29">1</meta>

[Lordblacknail]

I too, am a recent Kobo convert. I bought my first Kindle in 2010, the one with the keypad. Since then i have had several, the voyage, the oasis 2. But I am finding the Kobo Libre 2 the best ereader that I have used. I love not having to deal with sorting the files on the device. I am still learning about it, but I am sure I am going to love it. Just wish there was more cover choices.

[Lordblacknail]

I have an issue with books that I have added to my libre 2 via Calibre. There is a very annoying space between the ' and the next letter. There doesn't seem to be a lot of choices for models in Calibre for the Kobo. Is anyone else having this issue? I am mainly using original epubs.

[Pajamaman]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I would simply send the book to my Kobo with a filename consisting of the title followed by the first author. My Kobo will read the metadata from the epub and populate the authors list in the database from there. At that point, I can search on any of the 26 authors and the book will be found. Since it is a live search, depending on the author name, it often does not take that many characters before the name pops up.

For what it's worth, the content.opf contains the following for title/series/author information:

    <dc:title id="id">The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One 1929-1964</dc:title>
    <dc:creator id="id-2">Robert Silverberg</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-3">Stanley G. Weinbaum</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-4">John W. Campbell</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-5">Lester del Rey</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-6">Robert A. Heinlein</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-7">Theodore Sturgeon</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-8">Isaac Asimov</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-9">A. E. van Vogt</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-10">Lewis Padgett</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-11">Clifford D. Simak</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-12">Fredric Brown</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-13">Murray Leinster</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-14">Judith Merril</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-15">Cordwainer Smith</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-16">Ray Bradbury</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-17">C. M. Kornbluth</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-18">Richard Matheson</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-19">Fritz Leiber</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-20">Anthony Boucher</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-21">James Blish</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-22">Arthur C. Clarke</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-23">Jerome Bixby</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-24">Tom Godwin</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-25">Alfred Bester</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-26">Damon Knight</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-27">Daniel Keyes</dc:creator>
    <dc:creator id="id-28">Roger Zelazny</dc:creator>
    <meta id="id-29" property="belongs-to-collection">SF Hall of Fame</meta>
    <meta property="collection-type" refines="#id-29">series</meta>
    <meta property="group-position" refines="#id-29">1</meta>

Interesting. So the epub tags are stored as a form of XML in the opf file. I must pull apart the epub format sometime.

However, the approach you use depends on the publisher of the epub adding all the author names to the epub in the first place. (I wonder how they do that?) Are there many cases where a publisher will not add the multiple author names to the epub anthology accurately, if at all...

[Aleron Ives]

Originally Posted by Lordblacknail

Just wish there was more cover choices.

Check out third-party sleep covers, such as the ones from kwmobile. The official sleep covers are overpriced, anyway.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Pajamaman

Interesting. So the epub tags are stored as a form of XML in the opf file. I must pull apart the epub format sometime.

However, the approach you use depends on the publisher of the epub adding all the author names to the epub in the first place. (I wonder how they do that?) Are there many cases where a publisher will not add the multiple author names to the epub anthology accurately, if at all...

Most publishers do include all the authors though they will sometimes add the editor(s) to the author list—the list I included was direct from the ebook.

If you use calibre to download metadata, it will overwrite the list in the opf file with the downloaded one when you send the epub to a device or save to disk. You can modify this list in calibre's Edit metadata. As an alternate, if you are already editing the ebook to correct other errors, you can also use Sigil or calibre's editor to do some manual metadata editing.

See EPUB Packages 3.2 for more information on the opf file.