01-02-2024, 08:07 AM | #31 |
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foice, although you may want to manually sort your library, I'm guessing that there is some criteria to the sorting. Maybe if you specified the criteria, someone could offer an easy way to do it with calibre.
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01-02-2024, 08:35 AM | #32 | |
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Calibre searches (default settings) look in All columns. The word might be in the summary, a tag (publisher and/or user supplied) But the real power is a this but not if that search |
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01-02-2024, 08:42 AM | #33 | |
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Perhaps our reaction to the OP's question was somewhat extreme. But the thing is, there have been lots of people coming here over the years and whining how ebooks don't behave like paper books, how they can't use their favorite folder system with Calibre, how they miss the feel and smell of paper and so on. After a while it gets really annoying. |
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01-02-2024, 08:43 AM | #34 | |
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Actual displayed sort is almost instant. (searches that involve comments take a bit longer as the are not indexed and have to do it the old fashioned way. ) |
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01-02-2024, 08:54 AM | #35 | |
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If foice would state their criteria, maybe someone could give a quick method. |
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01-02-2024, 08:56 AM | #36 |
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I got the feeling that they just wanted to manually drag and drop the books around, based on how they felt about them at the moment. I could be wrong, of course, but what else is there that Calibre can't base its sorting on?
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01-02-2024, 09:00 AM | #37 | |
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And again, no reason to go back to pbooks, unless that is truly "all you want". |
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01-02-2024, 09:07 AM | #38 |
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01-02-2024, 09:27 AM | #39 |
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I see "look&feel", which to me is more of a visual/GUI thing, then a "physical feel" (as in touch/handle/smell). I think most people are smart enough to figure out they are not going to get the physical feel of books from calibre.
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01-02-2024, 11:13 AM | #40 | |
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For an arbitrary sort, though, I tend to start by numbering by 10s, which allows me to insert items in-between without making them seem "less important", which the 0.5 numbering for series entries does do. Also, the Series Manager plugin for Calibre really helps with re-arranging. |
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01-02-2024, 11:26 AM | #41 | |
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Again, Calibre makes it far easier, because a database is designed to handle the relations that you would have to manually create using the file system, plus allows you to easily search for details that are not tag-like (ISBN, publication date, etc.). |
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01-02-2024, 12:04 PM | #42 | |
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Even physical libraries had a physical database, separate from the books: at least two card indexes. Alao have fun doing that and maintaining it for thousands of books! Any database would be better, or even HTML pages* with the lowest links to the files, stored as they are on calibre! (*Actual Web server optional!) Last edited by Quoth; 01-02-2024 at 12:07 PM. |
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01-02-2024, 12:15 PM | #43 | |
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calibre made a lot of my cataloguing tasks exceedingly simple without spending an excessive amount of time on managing my ebook collection. As you said, I could search on almost any criteria including the ability to use multiple search criteria in a search at the cost of not managing the file storage, a tradeoff that I have never regretted. |
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01-02-2024, 04:19 PM | #44 |
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This sounds like a great opportunity to install Windows XP and make use of its ability to drag files around into an arbitrary order. You don't even have to line up the icons in a grid, so you can get an optimal simulation of disorganised stacks of books in random spots on the floor!
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01-02-2024, 04:23 PM | #45 | |
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After I posted an image showing the nearest thing Calibre offers to a depiction of a physical book shelf, the OP responded as above. |
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