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Old 04-19-2011, 11:16 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
I'm also wondering... There's the option to organize the books by tags, but I use my tags to indicate Genre and Source (i.e., where the book came from. This is important to me as a reviewer, because if a book came from an author or a publisher, I have to note that in my review due to federal reviewing guidelines.)

If I have 10 Genre tags and 10 Source tags, and I use one of each for each book, that's...a LOT of permutations to sort through if I were to do an export along the lines of:

{tags}/{author} - {title}

Is there a way in Calibre to designate WHICH tags are allowed for use in the send-to-device naming? If I could set it up so that only my Genre tags are used or only my Source tags are used, that would mean I would only have 10 folders to sort through instead of 100 or whatever.

I realize this would be kind of tricky to implement - you'd have to generate a list of all the existing tags and let the user pick which ones are used in the {tags} variable, but I thought it might not hurt to ask if it was on the list...
There is nothing like that on the to-do list.

The 'right' way to do this is not to intermix dissimilar information in the same field, but instead to make custom columns that hold a particular information type. In your case, given that you say there is one value per book, create a text 'genre' column and a text 'reviewers' column. You can them choose which column to use in templates according to the need-of-the-moment.

If you might have more than one reviewer/genre for a book (which is likely for genre), use a tags-like custom column.
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