[Rellwood]

@Chaley
@eschwartz
This is an example of a book in my library

Ashes of Midnight by Lara Adrian

tags: 2-tro-vamps, Contemporary, Fantasy, Amazon, Midnight Breeds, NITC, PNR, PNR Series, Romance, to-read-own, Unread, Vampires

Now these tags are both from my GR shelves that have been synced and my own added metadata. I know that they need to be weeded through and cleaned up, but I am not on that part of my project. I do think that having the admin parts of the tags auto populated in their own colums will do a lot of the work.


My desire is to have individual colums that would popluate from tags above. The tags are only listed in "tags" and I would like the tag removed once it's in it's column. I want no admin type tags in my tags. I do not want a column that indicates the presence or absence of a tag. I want that tag moved to it's own column and deleated from the tags column.

This would clear up the metadata. Most of my books have extensive lists of tags comprised of GR shelves (since I cannot for the life of me get those tags into their own column unless I import them from a CSV file from GR and merge them from one library to the next individually book by book)

I have managed to get the columns added "book source" which was made as "Text, column shown in the tag browser" meaning did I get the book from Amazon, SmashWords, Library.

Column "Location" which is also "text, column shown in tag browser" for the location of the book (ITC, NITC)

Finally I have column "Status" for reading status (read, not read, etc) which is also "text, column shown in tag browser"

As far as saved searches and virtual libaries, they don't really work for my needs. Each book listed in my library is attached to an actual book that I either have in the cloud and do not need to download to my Kindle from the computer, or I don't.

I have about 1000 books (I read about 6 to 12 hours a day- don't judge me) and I want them in a catalogue that I can look at on my Kindle to see what I want to read next, and figure out if I need to download it off my computer or the cloud.

I have very little compuer knowledge that would allow me to even make columns that are more than just simple text. However, I know that I can do it if someone can show me how. No matter how many times I read the Calibre instructions pages I still can't understand what to do.

Not interested in YES/No columns .