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Originally Posted by theducks
Calibre is a Card Catalog on Steroids (plus other features).
You appear to be wanting some sort of heavy duty research document tool
The tag browse method is a casual way to create searches. You can always type the same search terms by hand.
VL's are a easy way to create a filtered subset of the Library. Regular Searches now apply only to the VL (subset). very handy and it keeps the unique part of the actual search a lot simpler.
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not heavy duty just a way to access material by how i use them and think they need to be grouped. for example if i have Carl Jung, which can mainly fall into psychology, i would still probably want to put him with my Kant and Kierkegaard etc... but "tags" from say Amazon don't have it listed under that and would not show up under Philosophy even if i did search for it meaning i would have to edit every books tag just to force it to go where i want. needless to say this would be tedious and massively time consuming.
i'm not sure anyone else noticed but tags in books are rather messy and ridiculous, one book i bought from amazon had 12 tags!
i do like the idea of having subset/groups but it would be great if these were not based on anything specific to the book like author, tags etc... and just where i want to put them. (example right click on a book and have a "add to group" option) if Calibre could do that, even by plugin, this this would be perfect/amazing for me.