Alfa Ebooks Manager is a free program that allows to organize your electronic and paper books in single e-Library


Automatically Add Genre?

Submitted by sungkhum on 30 March 2010 - 5:22pm.

One more question I had, is it possible to automatically add a genre based on a web result for a book?

Thanks,
Nathan

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Submitted by admin on 31 March 2010 - 11:33am.

Nathan, the new version 1.8 automatically imports genres

Submitted by Val (not verified) on 11 April 2010 - 10:23am.

Hi,
aem v. 1.8 is a very good program and has made impressive progress with respect to v. .75.
One question:
in v. 0.75 I subdivided my book collection by creating my own genres. After importing the books into v. 1.8
two things happen:
1)the genres are all on the same level (sub-genres lost their parent genres)
2)if updating several books from the Internet my genre selection was overwritten.

Can I prevent aem 1.8 from automatically overwriting my genres? Or is there another field I can use to subdivide
my books in categories and subcategories?

Otherwise it is a very nice piece of software.
Regards,
Val

Submitted by admin on 11 April 2010 - 11:32am.

Hi, Val, thanks for your review

First of all you don't need to import v0.75 database - you can just open it with v1.8. And the genres structure will be the same.

To prevent overwriting your genres open in Web Update tool Options -> Update Options and unselect the Genres checkbox

Submitted by val (not verified) on 11 April 2010 - 1:24pm.

Thank you. Overwriting genre problem is solved.

However, updating existing books from the Internet after opening a 0.75 database gives the following error:

"Error accessing the table "Books", Database "(path of my database)". Operation muss eine aktualisierbare Abfrage verwenden."

Thanks for help.
Val

Submitted by admin on 11 April 2010 - 1:37pm.

Hi Val, could you send us your database to support@alfaebooks.com?

Submitted by Val (not verified) on 11 April 2010 - 5:24pm.

Hi,
when trying to delete books to reduce size of database I found the source of the problem:
the windows 7 file rights management did not allow to modify database.
After copying to an "allowed" directory everything is OK.
Thanks for help.
Val