07-07-2010, 07:03 AM | #1 |
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Using Genre to sort books when saving to device or disk
I use Calibre 0.6.42 in Ubuntu 10.04. By default, the path to save to my device (Papyre 6.1 - Hanlin V3 clone) is:
{author_sort}/{title} - {authors} and the path to save to disk is: {author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors} I would like to have my books sorted by genre when I save to my device, so they are not all in the root folder of my SD. Something like: {genre}/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors} but unfortunately {genre} is not one of Calibre fields. I have read that tags can be used to describe genre, so I have tried {tags}: {tags}/{author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors} and it woks, but it will create weird folders when multiple tags are used. Is there a way to have it done? Ideally, I would like to have a genre field or a way to specify that a given tag may be used for sorting purposes (like a main genre). Something like: tags: young, _fiction_, classic (here 'fiction' is the main genre) and then I could use something like: {tags_sort}/{author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors} |
07-07-2010, 07:38 AM | #2 |
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You can use the option for custom columns to create a Genre column. However at the moment that cannot be used in the Save to Disk template, but the ability to do so is on the ToDo list. I personally have started populating a Genre column in my own library in anticipation of being able to use it in the future.
An alternative is to use a custom column to hold any tags that are not genre related, but I think this has its own downsides although I have not tried it to check that out. |
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07-07-2010, 12:27 PM | #3 | |
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Do what itimpi suggested, first, then sort/filter on that field. Then create the various genre folders on your device. Using this template Code:
{author_sort}/{title} - {authors} BUT Indicate the Genre folder, instead of the (device) drive. |
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