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Originally Posted by nerys
Yeah I know about the tags and they are a royal pain in the a.....
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I needed all books without a cover, that had an author last name that started with a letter from L-Z and which I hadn't marked as a book I'd finished working on. Later I needed all books that had a period in the name after a single letter. Then I needed all naval fiction fiction books I hadn't read. Tags let me find them all. Tags are great!
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They would work great for segregating the NEWS stuff but are useless for any other segregation since I would have to "alter" the tags multiple times to allow the tagging to work.
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Why?
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Ideally I wanted to add more "Libraries" 3 actually.
a Working Library
a DONE Library
a News Library
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A week or month from now you'll be heading off to Madagascar or the Antarctic and think, "Gee wouldn't it be great to be able to have access to my books and news, like Starson17 can. But you'll have your books all cut up into different libraries, so you can only get books from one of them. Leave them in the one library. How would you like it if you went to your local library and asked for a book and a newspaper and they told you the books are across town in library building 2, but you can get the newspapers here in building 1 if you want?
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I would add a book to Working. Work with it till I get it displaying properly and then "move" it to the "done" library once its finished and viewable on the reader properly.
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Then a week from now, you'll think, "Gee, those books by Author "John Smith" really ought to be labeled as being by "John Q Smith" and you'll have to swap between libraries again, and you won't be able to see the books you're working on with the books you think are done. Just use the tags - please. Just for a while? You really will like it better in the long run. I was like you at the beginning, but it's only because we aren't familiar with tags that we don't like them ... at first.
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Once I have it done later on I will migrate the new txt and lrf files to my books library outside calibre on my external drive since I hate the way it organizes them :-)
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Calibre doesn't "organize them" - you do, with tags and sorting the columns. You should never ever ever have to go to the folder that Calibre keeps the books in. Just ask it for the books you want to be sent to your device or your disk, and it puts the books you want, named the way you want, in the folders you want, and you can change all of the above whenever you desire.
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The problem with tags is its not a drag and drop. I have to actually individually edit each title. Cumbersome and Time Consuming.
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You can have it automatically create tags, get tags by fetching online, globally add and delete tags from groups of selected books, etc. They really are extremely flexible. If you don't want tags, don't do them - News are already automatically tagged as "News" for you, so that's no effort. "Cumbersome" is when you can't find what you need, and have to manually go through all your books to find something. Tags and Calibre's superb search system avoids all that.