Advice on using Calibre as a main library

Wrongway · 03-31-2014, 06:01 AM

I have had Calibre on my Mac for quite a while, but only used it for conversion and not really used it for book organisation. At the moment I have a couple of Kindles, one a Paperwhite and an large iPad Air. Also started to play around with Kobo's a bit. The iPad to me is useless as a fiction book reader but fantastic for technical books. I have a habit of obtaining a PDF for every thing I buy as well as other PDF books. The Kindle etc. comes into it's own with what I call leisure reading. So the question is how to organise things as what I have at the moment lacks any structure. I keep the technical stuff for the iPad in iBooks and the fiction etc in the Kindle environment. I thought of using Calibre to organise the whole lot. Would this be a good plan. If I do go this route should I keep 2 totally separate libraries in Calibre, one for fiction the other the technical stuff. Or just have one big library. I was starting to look at the idea of one big library and use two virtual libraries. One called technical the other something like non-tech. When I created a test library in Calibre and made a virtual library which listed all books with a tag technical this seemed ok. But I couldn't seem to find a way to do the opposite and make a virtual library that listed anything that didnt have a technical tag on it. Is it possible to do this.

Any advice appreciated.

theducks · 03-31-2014, 06:06 AM

not yourtag

the not inverts

Wrongway · 03-31-2014, 08:21 AM

Ok. I tried tags:"NOT technical" and variations of but nothing is found each time.

DoctorOhh · 03-31-2014, 08:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wrongway

Ok. I tried tags:"NOT technical" and variations of but nothing is found each time.

not tags:"=technical"

Creating searches is easy to do by clicking on the tags in the tag browser.

Wrongway · 03-31-2014, 08:57 AM

Thank's that seems to have solved that bit

03-31-2014, 06:01 AM	#1
Wrongway Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle PW 1, Kindle kb, Kobo Aura HD, kobo Mini	Advice on using Calibre as a main library I have had Calibre on my Mac for quite a while, but only used it for conversion and not really used it for book organisation. At the moment I have a couple of Kindles, one a Paperwhite and an large iPad Air. Also started to play around with Kobo's a bit. The iPad to me is useless as a fiction book reader but fantastic for technical books. I have a habit of obtaining a PDF for every thing I buy as well as other PDF books. The Kindle etc. comes into it's own with what I call leisure reading. So the question is how to organise things as what I have at the moment lacks any structure. I keep the technical stuff for the iPad in iBooks and the fiction etc in the Kindle environment. I thought of using Calibre to organise the whole lot. Would this be a good plan. If I do go this route should I keep 2 totally separate libraries in Calibre, one for fiction the other the technical stuff. Or just have one big library. I was starting to look at the idea of one big library and use two virtual libraries. One called technical the other something like non-tech. When I created a test library in Calibre and made a virtual library which listed all books with a tag technical this seemed ok. But I couldn't seem to find a way to do the opposite and make a virtual library that listed anything that didnt have a technical tag on it. Is it possible to do this. Any advice appreciated.

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03-31-2014, 06:06 AM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,054 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	not yourtag the not inverts

03-31-2014, 08:21 AM	#3
Wrongway Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle PW 1, Kindle kb, Kobo Aura HD, kobo Mini	Ok. I tried tags:"NOT technical" and variations of but nothing is found each time.

03-31-2014, 08:57 AM	#5
Wrongway Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2014 Device: Kindle PW 1, Kindle kb, Kobo Aura HD, kobo Mini	Thank's that seems to have solved that bit

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