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pzaw · 01-17-2022, 09:18 AM

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If someone could help me with this it would be appreciated.

If you have a look at the attached image of the Caliber GUI you will see that there are 5 Libraries listed the first of which is highlighted. I am uncertain what this list is called officially. I just call it a created library list.

I have googled it and only found one post (2017 I think) where a person said that they wanted to arrange their books into a number of separate libraries and this list of course only accommodated 6 in my case. But, I may be mistaken, according to some of you, this number was 14. and I think the Author said that it was limited only by the screen size.

I have gone through the whole preferences for Caliber and can't find any way to increase this number from 5 to 14. Am I using the wrong version?

Some of you also asked why separate Libraries when you have tags in that post? Well I find the tag system only works well in a particular group. It does not lend itself very well to sub tags and sub sub tags. I am a bit old fashioned. In a real library the books are grouped in sections and sub sections. Tags I find are not very suited. Besides in a large book collection you may end up with hundreds of tags each one unique. A book could have 5 or 6 tags and being English there are many ways to tag the same thing. It ends up a mess when I try to use it.

May be someone might suggest a consistent tagging method that I an work with.

All I want is like a file system. Maths books in math Library (folder), and Novels in novel Library (folder) etc. and then use tag to differentiate geometry and statistics etc. It just seem more organized to me.

Anyway if someone could help me expand the Created Library list it would be appreciated.

regards
Pzaw

01-17-2022, 09:18 AM	#1
pzaw Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2018 Device: none	Created Library List If someone could help me with this it would be appreciated. If you have a look at the attached image of the Caliber GUI you will see that there are 5 Libraries listed the first of which is highlighted. I am uncertain what this list is called officially. I just call it a created library list. I have googled it and only found one post (2017 I think) where a person said that they wanted to arrange their books into a number of separate libraries and this list of course only accommodated 6 in my case. But, I may be mistaken, according to some of you, this number was 14. and I think the Author said that it was limited only by the screen size. I have gone through the whole preferences for Caliber and can't find any way to increase this number from 5 to 14. Am I using the wrong version? Some of you also asked why separate Libraries when you have tags in that post? Well I find the tag system only works well in a particular group. It does not lend itself very well to sub tags and sub sub tags. I am a bit old fashioned. In a real library the books are grouped in sections and sub sections. Tags I find are not very suited. Besides in a large book collection you may end up with hundreds of tags each one unique. A book could have 5 or 6 tags and being English there are many ways to tag the same thing. It ends up a mess when I try to use it. May be someone might suggest a consistent tagging method that I an work with. All I want is like a file system. Maths books in math Library (folder), and Novels in novel Library (folder) etc. and then use tag to differentiate geometry and statistics etc. It just seem more organized to me. Anyway if someone could help me expand the Created Library list it would be appreciated. regards Pzaw Last edited by pzaw; 01-17-2022 at 09:21 AM.