Orginization on kobo ereaders

crochetgeek2010 · 09-02-2013, 04:35 PM

I admit I am long time bookeen ereader - however my odyssey is @ death point and Kindle is a no go for me. Aura is most likely replacement. Currently I have have split my books up on my ereader by subject -> author -> series - thanks to Calibre all by series titles are series - # in series- book title - any brief warnings. Can in kobo ereaders I just bury the book shelves based on warning. Or can I do book shelf within in book shelf? From the sounds of this I am looking @ a long process of changing over stuff (ereading since the Palm tx days) so I may just start this this week. Thanks!

Laura

PeterT · 09-02-2013, 04:38 PM

Shelves are flat; not nested.

buffaloseven · 09-02-2013, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by PeterT

Shelves are flat; not nested.

What he said. On the bright side, you can easily create shelves automatically using Calibre matching pretty much any metadata you want, so the management of shelves is quite simple.

Ken Maltby · 09-02-2013, 09:15 PM

While it is true that Kobo's shelf and database approach can be made to work, with a lot of help from calibre, the Kobo AuraHD can also run Koreader which has a File Manager. So you can have both approaches, if you want. Also, Koreader can read .pdb ebooks as well as a number of other formats.

Luck;
Ken

Robert22 · 09-03-2013, 12:56 PM

Can a book belong to more than one shelf? In other words can I set up a shelf "Fiction" another "Short Stories" and another "SiFi" and have one book belong to all three?

If this is so I assume it is done with tags???

Can calibre create these shelves on the fly when transferring books to the Aura?

Thanks so much!

samhy · 09-03-2013, 01:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert22

Can a book belong to more than one shelf? In other words can I set up a shelf "Fiction" another "Short Stories" and another "SiFi" and have one book belong to all three?

If this is so I assume it is done with tags???

Can calibre create these shelves on the fly when transferring books to the Aura?

Thanks so much!

Yes, a book can belong to several shelves. In order to do that, don't forget the comas when following PeterT explanations

buffaloseven · 09-03-2013, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robert22

Can a book belong to more than one shelf? In other words can I set up a shelf "Fiction" another "Short Stories" and another "SiFi" and have one book belong to all three?

If this is so I assume it is done with tags???

Can calibre create these shelves on the fly when transferring books to the Aura?

Thanks so much!

Yes and yes. The thread over here gives directions on how to configure Calibre to create shelves. The Kobo driver assigns each book to a shelf when it is sent to the device, and if the shelf does not exist, it creates it.

Robert22 · 09-03-2013, 02:13 PM

Thanks buffaloseven and samhy I really appreciate your help!

09-02-2013, 04:35 PM	#1
crochetgeek2010 Enthusiast Posts: 44 Karma: 13110 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Kobo Aura HD	Orginization on kobo ereaders I admit I am long time bookeen ereader - however my odyssey is @ death point and Kindle is a no go for me. Aura is most likely replacement. Currently I have have split my books up on my ereader by subject -> author -> series - thanks to Calibre all by series titles are series - # in series- book title - any brief warnings. Can in kobo ereaders I just bury the book shelves based on warning. Or can I do book shelf within in book shelf? From the sounds of this I am looking @ a long process of changing over stuff (ereading since the Palm tx days) so I may just start this this week. Thanks! Laura

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09-02-2013, 04:38 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 12,170 Karma: 73448616 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Nexus 7, Clara, Touch, Tolino EPOS	Shelves are flat; not nested.

09-02-2013, 09:15 PM	#4
Ken Maltby Wizard Posts: 4,465 Karma: 6900052 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Heart of Texas Device: Boox Note2, AuraHD, PDA,	While it is true that Kobo's shelf and database approach can be made to work, with a lot of help from calibre, the Kobo AuraHD can also run Koreader which has a File Manager. So you can have both approaches, if you want. Also, Koreader can read .pdb ebooks as well as a number of other formats. Luck; Ken

09-03-2013, 12:56 PM	#5
Robert22 Zealot Posts: 108 Karma: 17102 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: San Diego, CA Device: PRS-505 600 300 350 T1 T2 Kindle PW1 PW2 KV Clara 2E Libra 2 Leaf 2	Can a book belong to more than one shelf? In other words can I set up a shelf "Fiction" another "Short Stories" and another "SiFi" and have one book belong to all three? If this is so I assume it is done with tags??? Can calibre create these shelves on the fly when transferring books to the Aura? Thanks so much!

09-03-2013, 02:13 PM	#8
Robert22 Zealot Posts: 108 Karma: 17102 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: San Diego, CA Device: PRS-505 600 300 350 T1 T2 Kindle PW1 PW2 KV Clara 2E Libra 2 Leaf 2	Thanks buffaloseven and samhy I really appreciate your help!

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