KOReader Books or Collections View?

[iandol]

First off, thank you to the KOReader developers for a wonderful piece of software. I love the flexibility of tweaking the presentation of the text and all the other interface features.

I use Calibre to sync my EPUBs, and they are placed in author folders by default. In the Kobo or Plato top-level interface, the folders are not shown, only the EPUBs (a books view). In KOReader (not the history view but the file view), there is no equivalent view. Is there a way to see just the EPUB files, and ignore the folders?

EDIT: how can I add collections, I didn't find anything in the user guide or wiki?
EDIT2: I found how to add a collection, only when adding a book, not in the collections view...


Thanks in advance for any help!

[jonnyl]

There is no way to ignore the folders, but someone provided a related user patch that automatically adds all books to the Favorites, so they can be browsed in a flat view there:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=358538

While you're in a collection, you can tap the hamburger menu (top left) and select 'Add a book to collection'.

[Goldbucket]

Just tell Calibre to not export to author subfolders and you will have a flat file structure.

[iandol]

Thank you to both for your help!

Originally Posted by Goldbucket

Just tell Calibre to not export to author subfolders and you will have a flat file structure.

I already have >380 books in folders, and I wonder what would happen if I change this setting, it will apply to books going forwards, but what about the previous books. If I manually move (with a script) all EPUBs out of folders to root, that would probably break the links Calibre has for which books are already synced?

There are several workarounds from the thread @jonnyl mentioned apart from the patch, amazing how flexible KOReader is!!!