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Originally Posted by chaley
You weren't unclear. I like to repeat back what I understand just to be sure.
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Good to know! Being a non-native speaker of English, I can never be sure whether I'm making myself absolutely clear
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Originally Posted by chaley
In some cases doing so can save a lot of work.
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I can relate to that
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Thanks for your clarifications about column types.
So if I understand correctly, "contains names" basically behaves like the Authors column, i.e you use the ampersand to separate items?
What kind of column would you use to put the original title of the book, assuming that one book has no more than one original title and that the original title may include commas? Would that be a single-value column custom text column?
And is there any way to display that original title in italics, other than using a series column? (In fact, this what I'm doing now, as I started entering original titles, having realized I wanted to group various language versions of one book together, and I was thinking about them as a kind of a 'series'. Obviously, it's not the best approach, as the order of books here is irrelevant. (I used 1 for original, 2 for a translation into my mother tongue etc. but it's not intuitive and redundant.))
In fact, can you somehow control how various categories are displayed in book details? (I don't usually have the title displayed but now I've realized that with most of the categories being clickable and, at least on my computer, shown in blue, the title might be the hardest one to notice
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@BetterRed
I've just switched from having a couple of physical libraries to having just one, with several "main" Virtual Libraries. We'll see whether this will work out (if not, splitting the libraries shouldn't be difficult, as I've added a custom column, indicating the main VLs).
I was inspired by my very recent discovery of the virtual library tabs feature (I gotta say when you hide VL tabs they're really well-hidden
), which makes switching between VLs more 'intuitive'. This would be even better if the views changed automatically when you're switching between tabs... I have to see whether that's a dealbreaker.
I knew about the possibility to hide columns in the Tag Browser but having merged a couple of libraries (including my latest experiments: audiobooks and the newly born language learning materials library), I've ended up with a couple of categories I wouldn't like to see when browsing through books only (e.g. the target language, used for learning materials, and actors, used for audiobooks). With Chaley's modification, this is gonna be perfect!