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chaley - l'll let the OP try the Advanced Rule route.
I implemented the custom column solution on an 8347 book library, start up time was 5.5 secs - library is on WD Caviar Black HDD, config is on a Toshiba HG6 SSD. That seems good enough to me.
Because it's not keyboard navigable I rarely show the tag browser tree - unless of course I want to Manage Authors, Tags etc. When I first started using calibre it sort of was, as was book details - sort of
Can anyone tell me what the following line in debug is about. I haven't had an Apple anything since a IIe and Lisa 30 years ago, and I have never installed the Fanficfare plugin. And the file doesn't exist, see attachment
macmenuhack file_path:C:\_Calibre\Configuration_64bit\plugins\ fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt.
calibre Debug log
Spoiler:
calibre 2.85.1 [64bit] embedded-python: True is64bit: True
Windows-8-6.2.9200 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '8', '6.2.9200')
Python 2.7.9
Windows: ('8', '6.2.9200', '', 'Multiprocessor Free')
DEBUG: 0.0 GetFileName::__init__.py - loading translations
DEBUG: 0.0 GetFileName::__init__.py - loading translations
Successfully initialized third party plugins: Drop Search Results (1, 0, 8) && EpubCheck (0, 1, 2) && Quality Check (1, 9, 11) && Count Pages (1, 8, 0) && GetFileName (0, 0, 12) && Favourites Menu (1, 0, 4) && Resize Cover (1, 0, 3) && Extract ISBN (1, 4, 4) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 3, 4) && Generate Cover (1, 5, 21) && EpubMerge (2, 1, 1) && Modify ePub (1, 3, 13) && View Manager (1, 3, 2) && Barnes & Noble (1, 2, 14) && Find Duplicates (1, 6, 3) && EpubSplit (2, 2, 1) && Reading List (1, 6, 6) && Goodreads (1, 1, 12) && Beam Ebooks (1, 0, 0) && User Category (1, 5, 3)
devicePixelRatio: 1.0
logicalDpi: 96.0 x 96.0
physicalDpi: 94.1467181467 x 94.0740740741
Starting up...
EpubMerge: DEBUG: 2017-07-07 19:03:42,163: calibre_plugins.epubmerge.epubmerge_plugin(152): macmenuhack file_path:C:\_Calibre\Configuration_64bit\plugins\ fanficfare_macmenuhack.txt
Started up in 5.49 seconds with 8347 books
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