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Originally Posted by Joanna
Like always, it all depends on our needs and habits  . |
Absolutely - unlike a chainsaw, calibre can be used to fell a tree, or make a fretwork screen
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Originally Posted by Joanna
In my case, the merge was less challenging than in yours, and it made much more sense. I haven't really used virtual libraries before the merge (of course, I did experiment with them, but nothing would really stick) and even now I have a total of 8 views . The biggest problem was probably the number of custom columns (almost 30 in total, and half of them in one library only) but using a tweak, I've managed to order them in a convenient way in the Edit Metadata dialog. Plus, now with Job Spy I can switch between 'views' in the Edit Metadata dialog, if I have some more editing work. |
I pretty much had my three libraries with saved searches (predecessor of VLs) and View Manager layouts in place when VL's were implemented. I converted the saved searches to VL's (can't recall what, if anything, I actually had to do) within the libraries and a bit later I tried the amalgamation.
I do all my metadata editing in the Book List, where I have direct control over which columns I can see, and their left2right order. Being mouse averse I find form filling of sparse data in dialogue boxes a PITA.
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Originally Posted by Joanna
@BetterRed, what are the specific roles of your 'subsidiary' libraries? (I can guess but I'm not quite sure about the differences between them.) And what do you have in your Media library?
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Your guesses are probably correct
_Intake is the library into which I Add new Books, I get the basic metadata right (Author, Title, Publisher, Status, Last Action Date, and ISBN/ISSN if appropriate), check using Find Library Duplicates and if okay I move books to the relevant permanent library.
_Test is where I test/check things, such as, new features, getting screen shots to post here. My libraries and processes are pretty stable now so I don't do much in the way of trying different ideas. If someone asks me to look at something that would significantly disturb my configuration data, or if they send me a database then I will install a portable version.
_Workshop is where I put format files that need days or weeks of work - could be translation, transcription, content editing - slicing/splicing/stitching etc. Some things have been there for a long time.
My
_Media library contains news & current affairs clippings, talking head videos and radio interviews with transcripts, image sets, cartoons, and the like - mainly national politics.
BR