02-17-2009, 03:45 PM | #1 |
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Mine has shipped but not arrived yet, so I apologize if this is a stupid question. As I add content, is there a way to organize it by genre, or by read/not read, or does it only organize by title/author? Thanks.
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02-17-2009, 04:02 PM | #2 |
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It has built in sorts by Title, Author, Date & Collections. Collections are something you create so you can call them whatever you want (kind of like a playlist). I have some by genre, like SciFi TBR, some by author & some by series, it just depends.
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02-17-2009, 04:07 PM | #3 |
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Thanks for your help! Your the best!
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02-17-2009, 04:12 PM | #4 |
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https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/PRS505 you can download the manual from there as well..... |
02-17-2009, 04:35 PM | #5 |
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I keep meaning to use Collections to sort my books by genres. Then I can't decide what genre they should be in...
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02-17-2009, 06:29 PM | #6 |
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I put my stuff on a spreadsheet to keep track of that kind of stuff. The nice thing about it is I can sort for unread then narrow it to a genre or the other way around. .
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(Mind you, I like Excel too. I especially like writing scripts to automate things... OK - that sounds really sad ) |
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02-17-2009, 06:39 PM | #9 |
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02-17-2009, 06:41 PM | #10 |
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I honestly don't even know where to start But I can make a spreadsheet sing and dance One day I'll teach myself Access and see if I want to migrate it over. I like that I can run different tabs on excel (I have a few for different things, mainly what to buy). I don't know if I can do that with Access.
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well, it's for indexing files. ian designed it with ebooks in mind but i suspect you could easily use it to index mp3s, or photos, or eleventy-gajillion excel spreadsheets... try it out, you've got nothing to lose. you can just delete it if you don't like it.
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Then you'd have a form to input the data onto. The fields on the form are linked back to the different tables, so when you fill in a form, the data gets entered into the correct places. Then you'd have as many different reports as you can think up to show you whatever you want to see - so all books in one genre by one author that you've read, for example. To make it even easier, you then have a user interface with buttons on so you can just click to get the input form, generate a report and so on. If you do go down the Access route, and you use the tab key to navigate between fields in a form, make sure you check the "tab order" is correct, otherwise you'll get horribly frustrated as each press of the tab key takes you somewhere unexpected! Edited to say: You'd also need to set up relationships - so one author can be related to many book titles etc Last edited by ShortNCuddlyAm; 02-17-2009 at 06:52 PM. |
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