Thread: Guide to Collections Management with calibre (Touch / Glo / Mini /Aura)
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Old 11-01-2017, 08:40 AM   #536
davidfor
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Back before Kobo Readers existed, there were Sony Readers. The driver for Sony Readers used Series and Tags for managing collections. Nobody complained (back then) about Tags not being appropriate. It was hard coded into the Sony driver and it just worked. So if it worked back then, there's no reason it cannot work now.

And when Tags is populated with something from the eBooks, you can remove what's there and put in nothing or what you want. IMHO, i don't like having Tags populated with data I don't want and I won't use. So if I was using a custom column, I'd have Tags empty so why not use Tags?
Jon: You really should read what you comment on. The word "personally" is important. I do populate the tags column, and I look at them when deciding on a book to read. I put the tags into the comments on the device so I can see them when looking at a book and deciding if I want to read it now. But, they don't make useful collections for me. I have made absolutely no claim about the usefulness of creating collections from tags, series or any other column for other people.

As to the Sony driver, tags is not hardcoded. It is one of the only three possibilities, but it is a default. I have no idea why only three columns were allowed. But, I would be completely stunned if there were no posts asking for other choices. I'm not going go looking for them because I don't really care. But, what I do know is that there are plenty of Kobo users wanting to use lots of different columns to make collections. Your continued insistence that only tags and series make useful collections is rubbish.
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