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Originally Posted by CraftingGrandma
So there is no way to have the book in may different bags as you used as an example?
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You can have any book in as many different VLs as you like using tags.
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Originally Posted by CraftingGrandma
I'm not trying to be argumentative or ungrateful, but what makes the virtual library different from searches then? I just don't quite understand.
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A search shows you a subset of a library. A VL shows you the same subset but restricts calibre functions and plugins to this subset alone. This is easiest seen in the tag browser. For a search the tag browser will reflect 1000 books for 1000 book library with all authors, tags, series etc... no matter what the search is.
A VL is treated as a complete library unto itself. Even if the man library has 1000 books the VL will only show you in the tag browser the authors, tags, series etc... for the VL treating it as a library all its own.
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Originally Posted by CraftingGrandma
As I have already been adding tags to the books to kind of create my own libraries. I have a tag with each of my grand kids names and library. Example - Jenny's Library
Before the virtual library feature I would just search the tags and put in Jenny's Library and then save the search. It would only show her library and then if I wanted to search in their library for a book within it, I would just leave the Jenny's Library part and type after it.
How does the virtual library differ from this? Is there more I can do in a virtual library that I can not doing this method? I still feel I don't fully understand the virtual library.
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Functionally a VL is not much different from a saved search except VLs are treated as a stand alone library and limit calibre functions to this group. Additionally you can now display VLs as tabbed libraries, see attached.
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Originally Posted by CraftingGrandma
I want to delete the tags for 2 reason, I don't like them being sent over as collections on my sony reader and when I'm doing a search sometimes books show up because of the words in the tag when I wouldn't want them there. Like I would look for a book that had the name Jenny in it, when I do the search the books with jenny in it show up, but so do every other book that is in Jenny's Library.
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For Sony devices the tags you don't want created as collections need to be bracketed. Change the tag
Jenny's Library to
[Jenny's Library] and the Sony will not create collections for these bracketed tags.
You can solve your search problem by either doing a prefixed search which limits the search to a specific field such as:
title:jenny
comments:jenny
authors:jenny
or go to
Preferences - Searching and check the box for
Limit the searched metadata then
remove tags from the list of items to search when you don't wish to do a prefixed search.