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Originally Posted by jesscat
But I'm still not seeing the applications for one user (not that I don't believe they exist, I'm just not getting it). Why would you put series into a user category instead of just identifying them in the series column and then using the Series section in the tag browser, for example?
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Series is indeed identified in the series column. But what if you have thousands of books and have several of your series which you have identified as ones you would like to read next? If you have hundreds of series listed in your tag viewer under "series" that isn't easy to recall which you had flagged for attention. Yes you could tag the books but then you need to tag every book in the series, including new ones you get. If instead you add the specific series tags to a user category of "ToRead" or whatever you have a much more manageable subset.
If you only have a small collection, or you only think at "book" level then User Categories probably don't do much for you. Don't sweat it if that is the case
. I personally haven't used Calibre for long enough to know the history of why they were added - I'm just grateful they are for when you want to work with multiple sets of books at a higher level of abstraction.