Kindle and Series Name

[kcarfi]

I saw a ticket on the calibre site that someone else posted, it has a script attached that will name the book with the series in the title so it can be used on the Kindle but I don't understand how to use the script. Does anyone have any instructions on how to modify calibre with it.

Here is the information from the calibre ticket:

Ticket #4290 (new enhancement)
Opened 7 weeks ago

Last modified 6 weeks ago
MOBI export with series name in title
Reported by: gilgamec Owned by: kovidgoyal
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: MOBI Output Version: trunk
Keywords: Cc:

Description ¶
I've modified the MOBI converter to include the option to prefix the title with the series name and number. (This lets me sort by title on my Kindle and see an entire series, sorted by number.)

I've attached the Bazaar patch. I pretty much just followed the prefer_author_sort option, except for the mobi.Writer class; I'm not certain what that class does, and it has never been run in my tests (converting from / to MOBI, copying to my Kindle).

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■my-changes (9.0 KB) - added by gilgamec 7 weeks ago.
Bazaar patch
Change History
Changed 7 weeks ago by gilgamec
■attachment my-changes added
Bazaar patch

Changed 7 weeks ago by kovidgoyal ¶
You should also use prefer_series_title in the _build_exth method of mobi.writer to set the series in the title when the MOBI metadata is written.

Changed 6 weeks ago by gilgamec ¶
That's what I expected, but as I said, the mobi.writer class was never called during my tests. I couldn't quite figure out the setup, actually -- the key change was to metadata.mobi, which only seems to be called when transferring mobi files to my Kindle, but not when creating the mobi files in the first place.

[GRiker]

@kcarfi: You might consider building a catalog of your library, then using the catalog to access your Kindle books. The catalog is much more navigable than the Kindle home page. See the sticky thread about creating catalogs for how-to.

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