On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:32:45 -0500, Boyo@the.pub wrote:
snip
>>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.
>>
snip
>
>I just went by your nfo file that said "I also strip IDs, comments and
>tags" The Ids: box is where Calibre lists ISBN when editing metedata.
>My comments on what Calibre could restore, if wanted, were for those
>who do use Calibre like Hawk who objected to the title changes.
>
>>
>>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?
>>
>
>Personally I use an android tablet and Mantano reader. Calibre acts as
>a server on my home network so I can directly access my entire Calibre
>library and sort in any manner I choose from newest, title, author,
>language, publisher, rating, searches, series or tags.
>
I've said in the reply to Hawkeye that I wrongly assumed the people
who frequent the newsgroups would want the stripped down versions I
normally do. I've had a busy weekend (grandchildren) but I've had a
bit of time to look into using calibre as more than a simple metadata
editor and converter. I now use your tip on the ISBN extraction plugin
before updating metadata, this gives me better consolidated results.
Fisherman said he saves books with the series included, which led me
to the metadata plugboards, so I now don't have to manually change the
titles. Hawkeye's comments led me to creating user defined columns,
the calibre catalogue creator and thinking about making the tags
actually useful. Based on everyone's comments I now think it's worth
using Calibre as a library, so the reply's have been appreciated.
I'm still experimenting with a few things so it's going to take a bit
longer than I anticipated but I'll start posting full author series
with complete metadata probably next week. Mainly British Crime at
the moment but there's a lot of US authors I haven't read yet and I've
a lot to redo now that retail versions are more common. I've got most
of Stuart Woods books (there's over 80) but the thought of renaming
them all, means I keep putting off doing them, now all I need to do is
save. This is going to make things easier and quicker. I wish there
was some easy way to check which is the best quality of the several
versions of each book.
I haven't read any SciFi for decades but there's quite a few series I
want to try. I'm not editing the Star Wars, Star Trek, Warhammer
books though. I'm no doubt going to get a list of chicklit, urban
fantasy and romantic suspense just before the summers holidays, so I
think I'll get those ready as well.
I'm think of posting in alt.binaries.e-book.flood, I know it's not
original content but some of the books haven't been posted for several
years. I don't think it's worth posting the stripped down versions
but I'm going to post an NFO with details and if anyone wants them
I'll post as a rar with appropriate warnings in this group.
|
| Follow-ups: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|