multiple revisions of the same book

Havoc · 09-03-2014, 10:01 AM

Is there a way to manage multiple revisions of the same "book"? I was thinking about organising datasheets of electronic components but these change sometimes and it is important to keep the old ones.

BetterRed · 09-03-2014, 08:34 PM

@Havoc - there is no 'official' way.

Calibre will let you have duplicate books (ie same author and title), so you could create a column for Revision Number and sort the book list by Author (Maker), Title (Component) and Revision Number so that they would at least be grouped together.

Or, you could keep the old revisions in an archive format within the 'book'. Personally I would avoid zip and rar because calibre will under certain conditions process them as comics - so maybe 7z. You would have to open the 7z in a 7zip aware utility to read anything, or to add any additional revisions.

Or you could keep the old revisions in a 'parallel' folder structure and put a link to the old revisions folder in the Comments or (Windows Only I think) wrangle a shortcut to it in the book folder. In the latter case you would have a LNK format in the book, which when Viewed would open the relevant old revisions folder.

BR

Inferno · 09-03-2014, 09:10 PM

You could name them with the month/year. Kind of like a magazine would be named. Makes it easier to know the flow of them as you need the archive copies.

Havoc · 09-04-2014, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Havoc - there is no 'official' way.

Calibre will let you have duplicate books (ie same author and title), so you could create a column for Revision Number and sort the book list by Author (Maker), Title (Component) and Revision Number so that they would at least be grouped together.

Ok, looks like a way. It doesn't happen that often and being able to find them when needed is more important than direct links or so.

At the moment I'm just trying out things to check if it would work for me. But I'm running into other trouble.

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09-03-2014, 08:34 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator Posts: 19,738 Karma: 25064168 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@Havoc - there is no 'official' way. Calibre will let you have duplicate books (ie same author and title), so you could create a column for Revision Number and sort the book list by Author (Maker), Title (Component) and Revision Number so that they would at least be grouped together. Or, you could keep the old revisions in an archive format within the 'book'. Personally I would avoid zip and rar because calibre will under certain conditions process them as comics - so maybe 7z. You would have to open the 7z in a 7zip aware utility to read anything, or to add any additional revisions. Or you could keep the old revisions in a 'parallel' folder structure and put a link to the old revisions folder in the Comments or (Windows Only I think) wrangle a shortcut to it in the book folder. In the latter case you would have a LNK format in the book, which when Viewed would open the relevant old revisions folder. BR

09-03-2014, 09:10 PM	#3
Inferno Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 2016606 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: android tablets	You could name them with the month/year. Kind of like a magazine would be named. Makes it easier to know the flow of them as you need the archive copies.

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