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Old 12-29-2020, 03:24 PM   #1
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What do you use User Categories for?
User Categories look very useful, but I'm not exactly sure what to use them for.

What do people on MobileRead do with them?
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Old 12-29-2020, 03:35 PM   #2
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I use them (together with a user-defined template and a custom column) to setup aliases. You can see example on aliases in this post (also see the attached screenshot)

Edit: Using the same technique you can tag series, and other objects (group them like BR pointed in the post below). e.g. nobel winners, fantasy series ... etc.
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Old 12-29-2020, 03:43 PM   #3
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Ad-hoc grouping of books, via the User Category optional plug-in.

Caveat the User Category definition tool was enhanced to allow custom columns to be specified, but the plugin only supports standard columns - Author, Series, Tags etc.

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Old 12-29-2020, 03:52 PM   #4
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I use them for grouping the different alias of an author, too.
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Old 12-29-2020, 04:11 PM   #5
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Favorite authors, series, or what-have-you.

Favorite books, but you must have a column with the book ID to add to the category. Yes, reading list can do this but with less search flexibility.

Books needing some processing. Same comment as above.
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I use it to find all books of any autor who ever got 5 stars from me.
First time giving 5 stars, I add the autor to the user category named «5*».
After that automatically all books from all 5*-autor are marked blue and the related value is set in a colum.

I like it.
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Old 10-26-2024, 12:09 PM   #7
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Favorite authors, series, or what-have-you.

Favorite books, but you must have a column with the book ID to add to the category. Yes, reading list can do this but with less search flexibility.

Books needing some processing. Same comment as above.
Sorry for necroing, chaley, but I'm playing around with the user categories at the moment.

The drag&drop of the book-ID into a user category doesn't work for me, similar problem as here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...66&postcount=1
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Sorry for necroing, chaley, but I'm playing around with the user categories at the moment.

The drag&drop of the book-ID into a user category doesn't work for me, similar problem as here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...66&postcount=1
An item (column) can be put into a user category only if it is/can be shown in the tag browser, which is not possible with the builtin ID column. If you want IDs in user categories then you must create a composite column with "Show in tag browser" checked. The template is {id}, sort/search by is Number. You can drag&drop this column into a user category.
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Now I understand, thx.
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Sorry for necroing, chaley, but I'm playing around with the user categories at the moment.

The drag&drop of the book-ID into a user category doesn't work for me, similar problem as here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...66&postcount=1
The User Category optional plugin facilitates adding/removing of built-in category values (Author, Series, Tags, Publisher, Languages) to a User category from within the book list… best used from the book list context menu.

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