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08-20-2011, 12:58 PM | #107 |
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Thanks, Manichean. I want to make Zen of Python into a printed poster and pin it on wall right above my working area. It seems to apply to life in general too. And thanks for the link to the webcomic.
Edit: And I'll do the spoilers too. Index with links & separate posts, spoilers on em all. Last edited by unboggling; 08-20-2011 at 04:08 PM. |
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Even using just one genre or just one type, there are some important things to track. Either they get tracked in their own fields or as some kind of tag in a tag-type field. Either way, isn't it kissier and more convenient to cram the information density into a smaller horizontal space? If I were richer my display would be a meter wide, but it isn't, so I like dense and don't need readability for the world (for my own purposes) because I understand it at glance. So: Format Good, Fantasy, Magic, Young Adult, Omnibus, Multi-Author Series, Series Up To Date, MyRating 3. as opposed to: _q4, ((fn, (mgc, (ya, [om, %sma, %su, r3 which can even fit several more tags in relatively narrow column. Am I missing something here? --- From KISS v0.3: _FormatQuality, ((GenrePrimary, (GenreSecondaries, [Type, %status, miscellaneous _q4, ((fn, (mgc, (ya, [om, %sma, %su, r3 That translates to: Format good, fantasy with magic, young adult, omnibus, in multiauthor series, series up to date, myRating=3stars (and I've read it, otherwise it wouldn't be rated). --- Edit: When I first started using these abbreviated tags a few months ago, I didn't like them at first. It took me a few days before I began to think in their language. Then after that I loved it. Edit2: On the other hand, it took 6 months for me to even begin to comprehend regex a little (not that I tried hard during that time ) Last edited by unboggling; 08-20-2011 at 02:09 PM. |
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Download (straight to library with plugin, but mostly to special folder). Add (takes data from file, so I don't even have to bother to correct filename while saving) and fill Source field - else I'll forget where I got it from. If I have time or can be bothered, I'll paste some info from download page (summary, pubdate, series...) Let it lie until reading, converting, filling other fields. Series # could be 1, it becomes important only when I start to read. I can't very well imagine situation where half of series is in another library, but I suppose I'd transfer and then fix as soon as possible. After all, nulla regula sine exeptione and I don't have lot of unfinished series anyways. I keep avoiding bulk edit until I know better what I may encounter, now I have trouble enough to decide what info to show on book details panel - for some books it can be rather long. Quote:
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08-20-2011, 02:22 PM | #111 |
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In my personal opinion, it would be simpler to go with human-readable tags, not worry about being able to read all of them onscreen and just use Calibre's excellent search feature.
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08-20-2011, 02:37 PM | #112 |
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Second to that. I hate to clutter tags field (probably could use more). That's why Good Kovid gave us custom columns.
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Re custom column, I'm trying to go for less rather than more where I have the choice. Re html, thanks. That's inspiring. Edit: you just boosted learning html up several rungs of my To-Do priority ladder. Last edited by unboggling; 08-20-2011 at 03:43 PM. |
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08-20-2011, 03:28 PM | #114 | |
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Okay, we have apples and oranges and pomegranites. Things going on at different levels. I'm trying to focus towards new user needs, but I sometimes get confused between new user needs and my own not-as-new user needs, and then there's the big distinction between my new-user level and your or others' expert levels. I'm new to it and your use of calibre is much more sophisticated. Which is why I missed that "just search" idea. I'm just getting comfortable with relatively simple searches instead of using the tag browser all the time like when I started out. I can understand that a user more experienced doing searches would value readability more than visual convenience of dense information. I'm not sure I'm ready for that yet. So trying to parse this out at the brand new user level: I get readability is good, density of information is too confusing. So in the KISS posts I need to use more readability (such as no abbreviated tags), as well as spoilers, and not even bother discussing information density at that level. And I probably need to simplify other things in it too. So I'll work on that for the next revision. Edit: And all that format quality discussion in the actual KISS post probably needs to simplify to one line something like "format quality is important but I won't worry it for now until I want to learn more about conversion." Last edited by unboggling; 08-21-2011 at 11:57 PM. |
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Another plugin allows to quick switch between views - like, many colums versus only few. I may hide the information, but it does not mean that I don't want to have it. |
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Yeah, I've tried the View Manager plugin. I like it, but had no need to use it because my columns were so simple. |
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Edit: And I haven't tested yet to see the results in quality of eliminating Word out of that and doing the search/replace and minor clean-up work in Open Office instead, to reduce conversions: epub --> rtf --> odt --> epub. The sequence with docx in it may be better than the sequence without docx. Last edited by unboggling; 08-22-2011 at 12:02 AM. |
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Link to latest version: Version 0.80, 2011-09-16, Post #243. --- KISS (v 0.31) Project Information: Project. KISS my use of eBooks. KISS my use of calibre. Purpose of Project. Learn about eBooks. Determine strategies and methods for gathering, managing, cleaning, and reading eBooks, and determine relevant "best practices." Learn to use calibre and associated software better. Manage eBooks better. Baseline. I am proceeding from a baseline that a completely brand new user to eBooks and calibre might have at the start, after doing these initial tasks as soon as possible: read Quick-Start Guide thoroughly, set system security auto-scan antivirus to exclude calibre libraries, learn and set how to get the specific metadata desired onto user's current primary reading device (for example the metadata plugboard for my Kindle), and learn and set how to deal with Digital Rights Management (DRM) as it relates to converting eBooks to format of choice for reading device of choice. Request Feedback. All strategies and work habits are proposed and are not offered as advice to anyone, but as examples of what one new user is doing, struggling with, or trying to do. I hope this may be useful to other new users, increasing in usefulness over time as it is refined in successive iterations. I request feedback from experienced users correcting bad assumptions and suggesting better strategies, methods, work habits, or workflow. Feedback from new users is also welcome. Please post feedback and discussion in this thread or send me a private message. Spoiler:
Strategy for eBooks (Proposed, for me): Overall Strategy. Obtain, cleanup, and read "on demand." I plan to make exceptions where warranted for good reasons such as "found a great edition that's hard to find" or "it's temporarily on sale" and "I want it enough to break the rule." But my primary purpose is to read eBooks, not to gather, clean, and hold them. Spoiler:
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Short Term Goals (Proposed, for me): Learn. Learn CSS and Sigil. Begin learning HTML, familiarize with HTML tags. Learn better strategies and methods on Mobile Read, in an ongoing manner. Last edited by unboggling; 09-17-2011 at 03:29 AM. Reason: Link to newer version. |
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The format quality rating tag (the abbreviations) and associated discussion will stay in KISS unchanged until I figure out an answer to the issue of different tagging levels for formats and book records that can hold multiple formats.
Experienced users say: Keep original incoming format. Use "preferred" format such as ePub where feasible. Clean-up, producing a new clean format. All of which give one book record multiple formats of differing format quality levels, assuming that they are kept in same record. I'm saying I think it's important to know which of those formats is now the best format. (Given not deleting the older uncleaned ones out of the record like I used to, after hearing experienced users' advice to keep them.) Because I don't know which format is the best unless I tag them per format somehow. So, how do experienced users handle this issue? Which of my assumptions or initial premises are wrong? Last edited by unboggling; 08-21-2011 at 03:42 AM. |
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