05-19-2011, 06:02 PM | #1 |
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How to manage collections for Sony PRS-950
Hiya guys,
I just got my Sony PRS-950 and I'm trying to get my library organized. I have around 800 books atm. They all have various tags. I'm naturally using Calibre. I prefer to have my books grouped by authors, and since there's no folders on the sony, I think the best way would be to have collections sorted by authors. So it seems to me that I have to do the following tasks: 1. Convert my tags to the authors name 2. Have the sony plug-in base the collections on the tags. I tried to read the walkthroughs and wiki's, both here and calibre on expressions. I blacked out, once I woke up I realized that I'm nowhere as smart as I thought I was I've used the search function, but seems all the posts are done by people with a rudimentary understanding of this, that I just can't figure out from the walkthroughs. I was wondering if anyone could be helpful and tell me the exact commands to use in the find and replace that allows me to replace the tags with the authors name. And the command line to set in the sony device plugin to base collections on authors? Thank you very much. |
05-19-2011, 06:30 PM | #2 |
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If you simply want the books by author, then I would not bother with Collections. Sorting the books by Author with an option to fast-jump to authors starting with a particular letter is a standard feature of the PRS-950.
Having said that I would strongly recommend having Collections based on Series enabled as that means that you will see books in the correct order within such a collection on the Sony. Whether you also want collections based on tags tends to depend on whether you have restricted their proliferation within Calibre. if they represent Genre, then they can be useful to use as collections, while if you simply let Calibre download them from the Internet you probably have too many for them to be useful as collections. |
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05-19-2011, 07:29 PM | #3 |
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My tags arent useful at the moment, I just let Calibre download them from the internet. That's also one of the reason I really want to do a bulk search and replace.
What I really want is a way to get an easy overview, basically having the authors being collections emulate folders with each authors books in them. |
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05-19-2011, 10:21 PM | #5 |
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Thanks a bunch, will try that out now
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05-19-2011, 10:46 PM | #6 |
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Thank you, that was 1 billion times easier than I thought
Now to find some of the other goodies Btw. does automatic management means all changes I made are synched with my device through calibre? Or only when I delete and send my books again? Last edited by Leyor; 05-19-2011 at 11:08 PM. |
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What I can say is:
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05-20-2011, 09:11 PM | #8 |
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Thanks for the help,
There's alot to start with, very much appreciated |
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