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Originally Posted by fidvo
All the above comments are great discussions on the theory of virtual libraries. Now for some practical advice.
My suggestion is to create a "Virtual Library" custom column, that holds tag-like information.
Figure out what Virtual Libraries you want. For instance, suppose you want a "Fiction" virtual library.
Go to one of the books that should be in the Fiction library. Type "Fiction" into the newly created Library column. Now in the tag browser, click on Virtual Library -> Fiction. This will create the search that you'll use to build the virtual library.
Create your "Fiction" virtual library from the current search.
Repeat for each of the virtual libraries you want.
You won't be able to right-click and send a book to a virtual library, but this method is the next best thing. To put a book in a virtual library, just add that library's name to its Virtual Library column.
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@theducks
Ok, I ran off and didn't see the whole "Virtual Libraries" custom column and basically just made tags such as "VL.Non-Fiction", and added them by hand along with a search for the tags "non-fiction" or whatever variance of the genre. I have found a problem doing this in that I cannot easily see which books are in that library because there is no custom column, and I found that a bunch of books were being added to the lists that really don't belong there because one random tag was added.
My question....
The custom column with tags, do I choose to use comma separated text, like tags, shown in the tag browser? I am asking because I would like to see all the VL's being represented per book..Also, what is that "show checkmarks" selection that is added when I am creating the column? I don't think I have seen that before...
I will check the user manual for that...