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Thanks for the response. Even with only 100 or so computer books listed (of the 250 total books listed), I have 278 tags to scroll through in the 'Computer' VL. And the 100 books are a fraction of the total books on computers that I have. In huge VLs like 'History' or 'Psychology', there would be thousands of tags eventually. So, you either scroll forever or you set the tags to collapse, requiring navigation (clicking and probably scrolling as well) simply to get to a tag or browse similar tags.
It's like a physical book: you have the index (tags) you also need a table of contents with a simple hierarchical outline of subjects. The VL tabs can function as chapter headings (as long as you have only 15 - 20 chapters) but there's no way to view a simple list of the chapter contents (sub-chapters, etc.). The developers do acknowledge a need for this and created the Genre/custom-column method under tags. All I'm saying is that Virtual Libraries are a great function and a much better way of subcategorizing subjects by adding an optional second bar of tabs. I've been working with relational database programs for 30 years. The goal is always to get the GUI to the point where a ten-year-old can use it: the simpler the better. It's just my opinion but I think the VL function is brilliant and can be expanded in the way I've described. I was just curious if the subject had been addressed by the developers before or if other, similar suggestions had been made.
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