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Originally Posted by AdrianJ
In my limited experience, that is exactly what the Filter button does. If you filter on say the tags, you can select ( tick ) any combination of tags from your list of tags, and then up the top select either AND or OR, or NOT. AND makes the selection so that BOTH tags must be present ( list gets smaller ), OR makes the selection to include all books with either tag, ( list gets bigger ), NOT of course takes those books out of the list. After making the selection, hit the tick button at the top to show the filtered list.
What is not obvious is that if you make no selection, you get everything. Thats not logical, but at least you dont start up with all lists showing nothing.
It does take a bit of playing around to get the right combinations, but it does work.
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From what I've seen, you are correct in regards to the list of books.
I'm referring to reducing the list of filter options as you build your filter.
So if I select the "AND" option, and the first thing I select for the filter is the tag "Fiction", then all tags that are not set on books with the Fiction tag would disappear (would only see tags in use that currently match books the proposed filter).
Or another way to do this would be to build the filter in steps.
Build part of the filter, click apply
See the list of books that matches the filter.
Go back into the filter (without clearing it), and only have the ability to select tags/Authors/Series that are associated with books that match the filter that was last applied.
Increase the restrictions of the filter, apply, see the new list, go back into the filter and adjust some more.
Does that makes sense?