[GUI Plugin] Kindle Collections (old)

[nynaevelan]

Originally Posted by cmcanulty

Everywhere I look for the collections plugin leads me back to this forum and 35 pages of posts. Is there a way to actually download the plugin? Thanks. PS I am using Ubuntu Linux

You can do it one of two ways, download the zip file on the first page of this topic and install it manually via Preferences -- Plugins - Add Plugin or use the plugin updater from within the latest version of Calibre.

Nyn

[kiwidude]

It is actually 70 pages of posts

All you have to do is look at the very first post... as for how to install it, if you are using the latest version of Calibre you can install it using "Get new plugins" from the Preferences menu or Preferences->Plugins

Darn it - Nyn beat me

[cmcanulty]

OK I downloaded the zip file and tried adding it to plugins both with the zip file and the extracted file, neither worked. Does this apply in linux?

[meme]

Yep this works in Linux - Ubuntu 11.04 is my main development platform and sometimes I even remember to test in Windows

Have you restarted Calibre?

Don't extract the zip file!

Try following the steps in the first post under the Install section, and then let us know what isn't working - with details to help pinpoint your issue.

Oh - and I recommend the latest calibre as well for the great built-in plugin management facilities. I'll have to update the first post to mention that.

Oh, and I only see 27 pages of posts, but they're really long pages

[meme]

Come to think of it, since the plugin requires 0.8.6 to install, I think I'll update the plugin install instructions to just use Calibre to install - no point in dealing with a download of the zip file.

Then I can remove the zip file from the front page to avoid confusion.





only kidding kiwidude

[cmcanulty]

OK I found the problem I had the latest version from synaptic but when I installed 8.6 from the calibre website suddenly it worked. Thanks all

[meme]

Great to hear. Calibre gets updated frequently so its best to install it right from the calibre site.

First post updated to use the built-in plugin updater for installation.

[pfloyd]

I love the Collections Manager GUI for the Kindle through Calibre. It's made organizing my eBooks a hell of a lot easier.

One question though -- is there a way through Calibre and/or the Collections Manager that I can have it sort on the Kindle by the series order rather than alphabetical? There are times when it's difficult to know which book comes where in a series.

Thanks in advance!

[chilady1]

Originally Posted by pfloyd

I love the Collections Manager GUI for the Kindle through Calibre. It's made organizing my eBooks a hell of a lot easier.

One question though -- is there a way through Calibre and/or the Collections Manager that I can have it sort on the Kindle by the series order rather than alphabetical? There are times when it's difficult to know which book comes where in a series.

Thanks in advance!

@pfloyd - not sure but did you see the first posting in this thread? There is a lot of information regarding how to further customize this plug-in to do exactly what you are asking. I highly recommend going to the first post and look under the following:

Create Collections on your Kindle automatically using Calibre data

Click the SHOW button under customization to get more ideas.

Through customization, I now have all of my series set up in the following manner:

Home page shows: Cotton Malone - Berry, Steve (6)

When you click on the series, this is how the plug-in organizes my books:

01 - The Templar Legacy
02 - The Alexandria Link
03 - The Venetian Betrayal

I wanted the series represented this way also, so I didn't have to continously search for the next book in the series. Makes it so much easier.


Good Luck!

[meme]

@pfloyd - the key issue is that the Kindle only sorts alphabetically - such as Titles, Authors - or by Most Recent access dates. What you probably want to do is to use Calibre settings to modify the Title to include the Series number in the Title and then when the titles are sorted alphabetically the series will be in order. As chilady1 pointed out, there is a tip about this in the first post - try the Calibre Tips section.

Oh, and thanks for the thanks

[pfloyd]

Okay, the plugboards worked out, good good.
Now I have to think about editing down the series names, as a few of them are a bit on the long side...

[itimpi]

Al the plugins should ideally be installed (and updated) via the Plugin Updater which is now part of the core Calibre release.

EDIT: Seem to have got this reply disconnected from the post I thought I was replying to.

[Vaesse]

I created an extra column called Series Nic with a shortened version of the series for the plugboard. That way I don't have to sacrifice the whole series name.

[pfloyd]

Originally Posted by Vaesse

I created an extra column called Series Nic with a shortened version of the series for the plugboard. That way I don't have to sacrifice the whole series name.

That's what I ended up doing. Looks better.

[crich70]

I'm having a problem. While I probably will remove a lot of books from my Kindle I want to better organize some of them and so I tried using the Kindle Collections plug in to edit which collection some of my books are in and when I click on Edit manually first the program goes non responsive and then I get an error. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.ui", line 162, in edit_kindle_collections
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_edit_co llections", line 75, in run
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_edit_co llections", line 92, in __init__
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_edit_co llections", line 112, in init_sort_order
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_edit_co llections", line 307, in get_sorted_paths
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_boo ks", line 517, in get_sorted_paths
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_sor t", line 52, in sort_names
File "calibre_plugins.kindle_collections.kindle_sor t", line 117, in sort_compare_kindle_names
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 3: invalid continuation byte