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Originally Posted by iatheia
Is it possible to make groupings based on number-based custom columns make a bit smarter? One of the columns that I have is the word count, to keep track of the length of the book. As you can imagine, very few books have exactly the same word count, though. So when I try open a drawer and look at the available options, I end up with a lot of entries such as "45342; 45344; 48500; 62001" etc. Having a library that is 1500+ books makes up for a lot of entries.
Realizing that there can be a lot of different types of number-based columns, perhaps a log based system would be more reasonable? So, leaving 1-9 as is, 10-99 would be in increments of 10, 100-999 would be in increments of 100, 10000 to 90000 would be in increments of 10000, etc.
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Turn on first-letter grouping for that column. That will give you a "layer" where the numbers are partitioned by 100s up to 10,000, then 1000s thereafter.
Depending how how you use the number, you might also want to
turn on auto-sort for that column and show the numeric value in the list view (Settings / Customize the book list / Extra information in the book list). That would simplify scanning the values in a partition if you are looking for something in particular.