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hobnail · 08-19-2020, 01:15 PM

I have a custom column, Source, where I fill in with things like Amazon, Project Gutenberg, MobileRead, etc.

As long as there's a book in the library with one of those items I can select it from a drop down when I add a new book. When I finish reading a book I copy it to another library and delete it from this library. When the deleted book is the last one with a particular source then that source is no longer in the drop down when adding a new book.

My solution was to add a bunch of empty books (Ctl+Shift+E), one for each source and set its source. (I changed their dates to long ago so that they sort to the bottom when sorting by date.)

Is there a better solution than this kludge?

08-19-2020, 01:15 PM	#1
hobnail Running with scissors Posts: 1,590 Karma: 14328510 Join Date: Nov 2019 Device: none	data for custom column goes away when last book with it deleted I have a custom column, Source, where I fill in with things like Amazon, Project Gutenberg, MobileRead, etc. As long as there's a book in the library with one of those items I can select it from a drop down when I add a new book. When I finish reading a book I copy it to another library and delete it from this library. When the deleted book is the last one with a particular source then that source is no longer in the drop down when adding a new book. My solution was to add a bunch of empty books (Ctl+Shift+E), one for each source and set its source. (I changed their dates to long ago so that they sort to the bottom when sorting by date.) Is there a better solution than this kludge?