[Mar2zz]

Originally Posted by chaley

To be clear, you want to drag a book from the library display onto a tag in the tag browser (the list on the side), and have that tag put on the book?

Yes. Exactly! (or add it when other tags are allready there, or, for example, drop it on a publisher and update publisher in the bookto that publisher.)

Are you importing (adding) books or importing metadata?

If you are adding books, then the tags stored in that book's metadata are added with the book. If you don't want these, then:
- set the option to add a specific tag to newly-added books. (preferences -> behavior). For example, call this tag ANewBook
- add the books. They will have the tag ANewBook
- Search for all books with ANewBook, and select them.
- Using bulk metadata edit, select remove all tags.

Something like this, but with the option to delete all tags on import. (didn't know about the preferences part, must have missed it somewhere)


If you are importing metadata, then don't import 'social metadata' and you won't get the tags.

I do not import metadata. Only books. But it also keeps metadata if present and I would like some choice in that (about tags especially)

To my knowledge, no current developer is interested in this feature.


My reason is that I most certainly do not want my entire library on my reader, but instead want a subset. To do this, I created a text column (call it #device) and put into it 'Transfer' (if I want the book on the device), 'Read', (if I don't and have read it), and 'Future' (if I will want to transfer it some day). If it is empty, I haven't decided yet.

I do not want that either. I just want to sync the reader with the books that I added to some sort of sync-pool. With the options update and keep others on device, update and delete on device.

I can find which books I need to send to the device by connecting my Sony and searching for

ondevice:false and #device:=Transfer

Anything that search finds is not on the device.

I can find books on the device that shouldn't be there using

ondevice:true and not #device:#transfer

Both of these are saved searchs.

Thx for explaining. Will come in handy.

I don't know what you mean, add 'prefix', etc. You can already search for a prefix and add a prefix. What else do you want to do?

What is the purpose of count? If it is for series, you already have that. Series columns contain an index.

Just for handy sake. Some series require different reading then the order they were wrote in. For example when prequels came out later. Would be nice to add prefix to title or whatever to suit the correct order of reading.

Or with RSS-feeds converted to ebooks to tag them with date in front or after the title.

I don't know how all devices (or mine, the foxit for that matter, as I don't have it allready but later this week) read or sort series tags. I was aware of that tag, but I renamed all my titles in series with number in front of the title. Like Ringworld I Ringworld, Ringworld II The Ringworld Engineers etc.