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Originally Posted by magphil
Is it possible to view 2 libraries at the same time ?
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@magphil,
Yes, but you won't be able to edit or drill down on the books in the second library, because it will not be the Calibre Main GUI of the second library that you will be viewing.
Use the
MultiColumnSearch plugin in "Search Another Calibre Library [All Books]" mode.
What you will see will be similar to Page 3 in the MCS User Guide image attached below, but based on your 'real' custom columns that you specify in your search criteria.
You will still be in the first library where you execute MCS, but an additional dialog will appear with all of the books in the other library that you selected that match your search criteria. That is what Page 3 shows.
Set the parameters such that 'everything' gets selected.
Since you may specify up to 4 different custom columns within your search criteria, you can obtain results with up to 4 different custom columns, plus all of the 'standard' columns, per single search.
You can run the same search again with up to 4 different custom columns, and get another set of results that can be used simultaneously with the first set of up to 4. And so on.
You can also copy the second library's results to the Clipboard and save them to a spreadsheet. They are copied as 'tab-delimited', and paste nicely into a spreadsheet with the formatting preserved. Just select 'paste special' and 'tab-delimited' to do so.
You could then do a 'Quick Switch' to the second Calibre library, then search the first one like you did the second one. Save the results from that search into the same spreadsheet, and you will have a consolidated spreadsheet for all of your libraries with all of the 'standard' columns plus whatever number of custom columns that you chose as your search criteria.
What I just described above was my original vision of MCS.
DaltonST