[higlider]

I have a user defined column called "read" in which I put initials of family members that have read the book, separated by commas: tw, cw, etc. In Calibre that column symbol appears on the left pane and it expands to all the readers--excellent, and of course clicking on "tw" selects those books read by tw. This is an automated search of #read:"=tw".

Now in generating a Calibre2Opds catalog, I thought I might use Featured Books as my "Read Books" by using the above search, but it gets an error during generation, I think because C20 doesn't let us search on user defined columns. Using a search saved in Calibre also gets the same error, of course. I would like to request search be expanded to user defined columns.

I could change to using tags like Read:tw, Read:cw, etc., and then use tag splitting, but it isn't as clean or as convenient for input as having my "Read" column where it is easy to add two letters. Why simulate having a Read field when you can actually have a Read field!

So search on user defined fields would be nice to have.