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Originally Posted by tomcooke
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is it better to do all the work in the main library using a filter to limit the active book view so things work faster and no merging needed later?
This is going to be a lot of work to get really organized so any help at this stage will be greatly appreciated.
Thomas
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Definitely better to use the main library and apply filters. Separate libraries don't communicate with each other, so your maintenance will be much easier with a single library.
What I would do is create a custom column called "library" or "collection" with the type of your choice (if you have a set few collections, I'd just make it a drop-down type populated with the collection names you want), and have it viewable in the tag browser.
Once you have some of your books assigned to these collections, select one in the tag browser, then using the button up in the top right area, save that search. Do this for each collection, and then they will be in the upper left drop down for easy access to the search filters so that you can work on each collection while excluding all others, which is effectively the same as working on a separate library but without the headaches of actually keeping separate libraries updated.
Hope that made sense. I'm on the computer that doesn't have calibre so I'm not looking at it while trying to explain it.
