07-07-2010, 06:18 AM | #1 |
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Using Series in Save to Device
I have a lot of books that are in Series. I have come up with a template that almost works
{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>2s} {title} - {authors} This actually works just fine with those books that are in Series. The problem arises with those books that are NOT in a Series. It puts a '00 ' at the beginning of every book title. So - what I do then is use a rename program that scans for these leading '00 ' characters and renames all the files. So far so good. This all works are far as it goes - except when I want to upload one of these files again for any reason. It uploads ok - I then have two books on the device - one with a '00 ' leading, and one with not. The problem now is that I cannot rename the files like I did before as the rename TO name already exists, so the rename fails. I would like a way of getting around this problem. Of course I can simply grin and bear the fact that a lot of my book titles start with '00 ' and be done with it. One way suggested to me is to make up a new tag field for those books that are not in a Series, and process those differently. This sounds ok - but how can I use a different template for these differently tagged files? Do I simply have to remember what the different templates are for each tag, or is there someway of switching templates programatically? Currently - every so often I simply delete ALL the books on my device, and re-save the lot. This takes a long time - so I really want to get this format worked out. Any suggestions welcomed.... |
07-07-2010, 06:29 AM | #2 |
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But I would rather put the series into a sub folder. Some authors have quite a few series, and it looks better this way. Also, some authors can have 70+ books - this makes for a very confusing list. Are you suggesting that I do both?? You might also notice that I am using {series_index:0>2s} and NOT {series_index:>2s}. This also makes all the difference as I need a leading 0 - many series go over 9 volumes. If not done this way, the books do not sort correctly. Then again, maybe I am missing something.... |
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I don't think you're missing anything. What exactly are you trying to do? Are you sending everything to your device?
I would suggest using two passes. The template remembers previous templates. Use the tags/search and select all books in that are in series, then use the template you've been using. Then grab all of the non-series books and change the template to send them the way you would like to see them show on your device. |
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00NoSeries/ {author_sort[0]}_authors/{authors}/{title}-{id}/{title} {series[0]}-series/{series}/{series_index:0>2s}-{title}_{id}/{title}_{authors} with 2 filters to make it easy Code:
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