Sorting by the presence or absence of covers/metadata?

Belfaborac · 08-12-2011, 04:30 PM

Pardon me if I have overlooked something and this is already possible - I do have a nasty habit of overlooking the blatantly obvious. If so, please tell me what I've missed....

Basically I wonder if it might be possible to implement sorting by the presence or absence of cover pictures and/or specific metadata fields? The sorting and other functions of Calibre are otherwise far in excess of my humble requirements, but I do at times add a number of books at a time and neglect to add covers and metadata at the time and such sorting functions would save me a lot of hunting around for missing items and details.

chaley · 08-12-2011, 04:47 PM

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chaley · 08-12-2011, 04:50 PM

Fieldname:true will find books with something in the field. Fieldname:false will find books with nothing in the field. For example, cover:true will find books with covers, and cover:false will find books without covers. Tags:true finds books with tags. Tags:#>3 finds books with more than three tags. And so on.

See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui....arch-interface for more information.

Belfaborac · 08-12-2011, 05:38 PM

As I assumed, I just hadn't RTFM well enough. Thanks a lot for helping me out and apologies for the misplacement of the post.

gbermor · 08-13-2011, 11:41 AM

Oh wow, this has been extremely helpful!

08-12-2011, 04:30 PM	#1
Belfaborac Wizard Posts: 1,498 Karma: 5199835 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Norway Device: Sony PRS-505, PRS-950	Sorting by the presence or absence of covers/metadata? Pardon me if I have overlooked something and this is already possible - I do have a nasty habit of overlooking the blatantly obvious. If so, please tell me what I've missed.... Basically I wonder if it might be possible to implement sorting by the presence or absence of cover pictures and/or specific metadata fields? The sorting and other functions of Calibre are otherwise far in excess of my humble requirements, but I do at times add a number of books at a time and neglect to add covers and metadata at the time and such sorting functions would save me a lot of hunting around for missing items and details.

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08-12-2011, 04:47 PM	#2
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,734 Karma: 6690881 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Moderator Notice Thread moved to appropriate forum. Please read the sticky at the top of the development forum before posting there

08-12-2011, 04:50 PM	#3
chaley Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,734 Karma: 6690881 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Notts, England Device: Kobo Libra 2	Fieldname:true will find books with something in the field. Fieldname:false will find books with nothing in the field. For example, cover:true will find books with covers, and cover:false will find books without covers. Tags:true finds books with tags. Tags:#>3 finds books with more than three tags. And so on. See http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gui....arch-interface for more information.

08-12-2011, 05:38 PM	#4
Belfaborac Wizard Posts: 1,498 Karma: 5199835 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Norway Device: Sony PRS-505, PRS-950	As I assumed, I just hadn't RTFM well enough. Thanks a lot for helping me out and apologies for the misplacement of the post.

08-13-2011, 11:41 AM	#5
gbermor Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 74190 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Puerto Rico Device: Sony PRS-300, Kindle/SO	Oh wow, this has been extremely helpful!

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