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rellwood - also have a look at User Categories -
Left sidebar->Tag Browser->Manage auth...
You can create arbitrary categories based on other categories (tags, authors, publishers etc) and then use those categories in VL search expressions.
There's explanation of User Categories on page 19 of the PDF manual (v 2.38) ==>>
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/calibre.pdf.
BR