Is There a Way to Batch Change Icons for Multiple Folders

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While organizing my book collection I realized that I would like to change the icons of my "Currently Reading" folders. The proccess of changing one icon takes too many clicks and I would like to have a button that batch changes the icons for the selected folders. You can see what I mean in the screenshot, in the right lister.

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You could use a script like the one below that creates ".xxxxx" files in every selected folder (for your case, it might be ".currentlyReading".
CreateDotFile.opusscriptinstall (9.0 KB)

And then setup filter-based labels to color icons (or even the folder name or background).
The filter would look like:

foldercontent match ( 
	name match .currentlyReading nowild
)

You'd have to manually remove the ".currentlyReading" file to get rid of the label (or make a script to do that for you based on a selection of folders).

EDIT: If you really want custom icons, here's a button that converts image to icon and creates the desktop.ini file to use that icon as the folder icon (requires to have ImageMagick and modify path to suit your installation):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<button backcol="none" display="both" label_pos="right" textcol="none">
	<label>Convert to Ico &amp;&amp; Use as Folder Icon</label>
	<hotkeys>
		<chord>
			<key>ctrl+shift+R</key>
			<key>F</key>
		</chord>
	</hotkeys>
	<icon1>#Windows Folder</icon1>
	<function type="batch">
		<instruction>@runmode hide</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>&quot;C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.11-Q16-HDRI\convert.exe&quot; -background transparent {file$} -define icon:auto-resize=16,24,32,48,64,72,96,128,256  {file$|noext}.ico</instruction>
		<instruction />
		<instruction>ECHO [.ShellClassInfo] &gt; .\desktop.in</instruction>
		<instruction>ECHO IconResource={file$|ext=ico},0 &gt;&gt; .\desktop.in</instruction>
		<instruction>move .\desktop.in .\desktop.ini</instruction>
		<instruction>attrib +S +H .\desktop.ini</instruction>
		<instruction>attrib +S +H +R {file$|ext=ico}</instruction>
		<instruction>attrib +R .</instruction>
	</function>
</button>

Convert to Ico & Use as Folder Icon.dcf (1003 Bytes)

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I totally forgot about the labels. They work well enough for this task. I assigned sequential shortcuts. Alt+L, G for green folder, Alt+L, R for Red and so on... Bassically just a super-simple categorizing system using colored folders. Having my collection organized like this motivates me to read them more.