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Originally Posted by ryderark
I'm beginning to see what the problem is.
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I'm glad you're beginning to see what is happening.
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Originally Posted by ryderark
In the library, the collections are grouped as simple "tags", which passes on to the device window as "collections".
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Close but wrong. There are various fields that can be used to create collections not just tags, author_sort, tags and series come to mind. I also create collections on my Sony using one of the special collections called aba:%All by Author. All of these are represented on the device by the collections field.
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Originally Posted by ryderark
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.
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Tags is recognized by the library window because there is a tags field in the library window, There is no tags field in the device view.
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Originally Posted by ryderark
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.
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Hopefully by now you see that tags does not equal collections. Tags equal tags, but collections can equal author_sort, authors, tags, series, custom fields, or a special collections. Many folks setup their reader so collections don't even have tags in the field.
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Originally Posted by ryderark
I didn't even know that the 'collections' field existed!
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That's because it is a device specific field, not a calibre library field.
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Originally Posted by ryderark
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.
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Since the two are not equal this translation wouldn't make sense.
I hope I was of some help.