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Originally Posted by Azkahuna
I am curious as to why the program would even have the capability to create multiple libraries if there is no meaningful way to interactively access them without duplicating a file?
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I imagine that one of the reasons people wanted different physical libraries is because they wanted different custom columns for different 'sorts of books', or that they used standard columns for different purposes.
If Calibre were to have a Group Library feature, I suspect it would exclude columns that were not common to all of the libraries in the Group. Even then the same column can be used for different purposes in different libraries. In my Journals library I put Journal Name in Author, and Edition Identifier (edition, date, folio etc) in Title.
If you want to search across multiple libraries you could use the search facilities that your operating system provides, or 3rd party products like DocFetcher, File Locator, Recoll etc.
If you use Windows 7/8 you could create a Windows Library for ebooks, then include your calibre library folders in it, to create the sort of virtual library you're seeking - it might give you some of what you want.
Software never does everything one wants, but if it does 90%, then that creates the opportunity to use one's imagination to devise 'outside the box' solutions for the other 10% - which could be seen as a blessing.
BR