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Originally Posted by speakingtohe

That is interesting. I have a PRS 600 and other than embedded metadata in the metadata epub which my reader does not show me how is this metadata on the device. I don't want to see it on a per book basis, but can you search on a tag in the Sony PRS -600 and get a result?

I think the program does not show the embedded data on the different formats, but its own metadata, always. But if you write something alone in the command line, it does indeed search in all the field columns in the device window. At least that's what I see.

I don't even have the option of the tag browser when I am in device view. Of course not having the option made me think it probably did not work in device view.

Probably denseness on may part but how do you get that option in device view.

Helen

That's the expected behaviour, as the Calibre author told me. But you should be able to select the field you want to filter by clicking on it in the library window, and then carry on that filter to the device window. The problem is that, for me, the only clicking filter that carries on to the device window is the author field, although the tags field are there too.

Originally Posted by dwanthny

This makes complete sense to me, there is no ratings, tags, format or series fields in the device view.

I'm beginning to see what the problem is. In the device window you have a column named "Collections", but there is not that same column in the library window. In the library, the collections are grouped as simple "tags", which passes on to the device window as "collections". However, when you click on the tags field in the library window browser, the command line prompts 'tags:"=xxxxxx"', instead of 'collections:"=xxxxxx"'. So that "tags" field is recognized by the library window, but not by the device window.

Then, if you write down manually the line 'collections:"=xxxxxx"' in the command line, it is recognized by the device window, but the library window is blank.

I think the problem is that the field tags is named differently in both windows, and so it's only recognized by one of them when you mark it up. Usually the library window which is the one which has the tag browser. I didn't even know that the 'collections' field existed!

2. Use one the below fields that actually exist in the device view.

title, authors, timestamp, size, collections

You are right in that those fields are the only ones that carry on to the device window. That should be like you say, except for the collections tag, as I've said. The collections field doesn't show on in the library window.

Maybe it should be made some traslation between the library and window device? For when there's a 'tags:"=xxx" prompted in the command line in the library window, it should show on as 'collections:"=xxx" in the device window, and viceversa.

Regards.