On 12 Mar 2016 02:20:05 GMT, Kie <kie@home.now> in
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<56e37cd5$0$30266$b1db1813$a307dbb3@news.astraweb.com> wrote:
>In reply to "Boyo@the.pub" who wrote the following:
>
>> On 11 Mar 2016 00:07:00 GMT, Kie <kie@home.now> wrote:
>>
>> > In reply to "Hawkeye" who wrote the following:
>> >
>> > > On 10 Mar 2016 23:39:22 GMT, kie@home.now (KiE) in
>> > > alt.binaries.e-books with message-id
>> > > <56e205aa$0$32376$c3e8da3$5da541ee@news.astraweb.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Version 1.
>> > >
>> > > I am not interested in anything with screwed up titles.
>> >
>> > I've a feeling this will be the majority view, thanks for commenting.
>>
>> Not sure why you would strip ID's. That's all Calibre needs to pull
>> metadata regardless of the title, thus allowing the restoration of the
>> original if wanted. Even on those that have had it stripped if the
>> text of the book contains the ISBN number then the "Extract ISBN"
>> plugin for Calibre can extract it so that Calibre can pull metadata if
>> that's preferred.
>
>Thanks for commenting.
>
>I don't deliberately remove the ISBN number, I click the green triangle to clear
>the contents of the IDs field in case there is an Amazon ID number. The
>stripped books are intended for people who don't use calibre, so there is no
>need for any metadata other than the title, author and publication date.
>
>The IDs box is pretty useless, there doesn't seem to be any way to edit it
>easily, or display the contents as a column so selected items can be deleted or
>added.
>
>I'm surprised people don't want the series titles and numbers displayed in the
>library pages of their eReaders. How do you find the next book in the series?
That's an easy one. I use Calibre, but I also use my PC as my primary
repository of books. I have a separate Caliber library for the books
I have loaded to my Kindle, which are duplicate copies of my primary
library on my PC. I also copy the booklist from Fantastic Fiction
into a text file and load it under Author Name-Book List if I am
interested in a particular order.
This gives me a list on my reader I can easily access if I am reading
a series. I keep a small group of books to be read on my reader and a
group of "favorites" that I enjoy re-reading from time to time.
If I have a book in a library I wish to read I can add a -number after
the title to show the series position and then load a copy to my
reader, retaining the original. I copy the file to my Loaded library.
When I have read a book I mark it as being read, copy it back to my
PC, and replace the copy in my library. I remove the copy in my
Loaded library, of course.
I do code my books as to tentative quality for those I have not read
by adding ~Bx or ~Cx after the title, with x being a number to show
relative readability. A ~B1 looks OK, while a ~C2 is unreadable. I
use ~A1 for read and OK or ~A2 for read but could stand replacing. In
this way all of my books reside on my PC and are regularly backed up
along with my other files. I can tell at a glance if I have read the
book, if my copy is OK, and if I have what appears to be an acceptable
copy I can now read if I so desire. I update the Metadata file at
this point insuring the series data and any necessary tags are in
place before adding the Book Read flag to the name and filing it away
permanently.
For example:
These are most useful in my PC database:
A Mighty Fortress~A1 - David Weber.mobi Read and OK
A Mighty Fortress~A2 - David Weber.mobi Read and needs replacing
A Mighty Fortress~B1 - David Weber.mobi Not read appears OK
A Mighty Fortress~C2 - David Weber.mobi Not read appears unreadable
Most useful in my reader:
A Mighty Fortress-4 - David Weber.mobi Not read, number 4 in series
My reader contains my 'books in process' more or less, and having had
three readers crap out on me without losing anything but my place in
whatever I was reading at the time I am well satisfied.
I can easily replace or update any book list at any time, the files
are small, and don't clutter my reader (especially if I set up
separate groups by author) and I have found this to work quite well
for an absolutely insane number of books.
>
>I only posted two versions of the books, version 1 with corrected full metadata
>and version 2 was with the titles changed to include series & number and
>metadata stripped.
>
>There is a version 1.5 of the books I could post, full metadata with the titles
>changed to include the series. It would mean another save during the process
>but I have plenty of hard disk space. (Or this could be version 2?)
>
>I could then remove the metadata for people I normally supply books to and not
>bother posting this version?
>
>I'm editing the books anyway, for me and a few relatives. I just thought I
>might as well share the work I've put in with the people on usenet since this is
>where the books are from originally.
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