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Originally Posted by davidfor

As @compurandom said, books can be in multiple collections. I think that is why Kobo changed from their original use of "Shelf", which does imply a single shelf for each book, to "Collection". And calibre can create collections on the device based on nearly any column in calibre (I'd recommend not using the title). Whether there is an existing column that suites depends on what you want to do. Personally, I use a "Status" column that is populated with the status such as "ToRead", "Reading" and "Finished". I went into a little bit of detail in this recently in https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...18#post4171818. Alternatively, using a template such as the one discussed above with @Skydog would work.

Thanks. Very interesting. I also found an old 2015 thread that deals with some of this.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

That sounds horrifying. I almost want to try it.

Well put! Have to be in the right mood to fiddle with these ideas. Maybe after a couple of feet of snow and nowhere to go?

Originally Posted by Skydog

You're not alone. I was using a similar system to keep books on the home page as a kind of TBR. It's darned annoying to have to edit the 0% for each book, upon connecting, particularly for more than one device.

Yup. But after I fix up one device, I use the plugin to zap the second device. Of course, that takes time to connect each, etc. Anyway, it's somehow oddly comforting to know I'm not the Lone Ranger.