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Originally Posted by syoreed
I can't figure out how to create a new category. I can create a Tag, but that's a sub-category of the initial category, TAGS. I can't create a new category called NEWSLETTERS or something. As far as I can tell, this isn't possible.
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You don't seem very familiar with your options in Calibre. There's nothing wrong with that, it has lots of features. These are all options:
1) TAGS: use a tag called "NEWSLETTER" You can click on that tag (something I seldom do), or type "tag:NEWSLETTER" (or just type "NEWSLETTER") into the search bar and you'll see only NEWSLETTERS. You can save that search and select it quickly from saved searches. You can even use it as a "Restriction" so you see only those items in your library and can search within that restriction.
2) Custom Columns: You can create a new field. It can be a text field - say "BookType" and you can put "NEWSLETTER" in that field for some, "NOVEL" for others, etc. Sorting by that field or searching on that field will work. You might prefer a Boolean Yes/No on a field/column called "Newsletter"
3) User created categories: You can have a category that shows only books that meet certain criteria: Tag must be NEWSLETTER and author must be a specific author.
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Besides, due to the FETCH METADATA FROM SERVER feature (which is very useful, don't get me wrong), I have hundreds of tags. A tag labeled NEWSLETTER (or whatever) doesn't seem quite right, given the seeming intended purpose of tagging. It seems like tagging was meant to separate books into categories based on topic. NEWSLETTER is more of a format (not file format; more like a publication or reader-consumption format), not a topic. Given all that, a tag labeled NEWSLETTER wouldn't stand out from amongst the other tags the way I'd like it to.
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I like the hundreds of tags; others don't. You can turn them off, but I use searches and saved searches so I don't care if they stand out.
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As far as the sorting being clunky... Calibre doesn't keep the newsletters in chronological order unless I arrange my ENTIRE Calibre collection by PUBLISHED or SERIES... hardly ideal.
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See above. You can sort on the custom columns in many ways
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I think it might be useful if CALIBRE included a PUBLICATION FORMAT category (or something) that users can then create sub-categories for (newsletter, novel, textbook, periodical, whatever).
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See above. This is easy to do. You may also be interested in the new hierarchical features of tags and categories.