list all Books which are NOT in a Virtual Lib

Adu von Tubka · 11-12-2021, 12:12 PM

Hi, is it possible to list all Books which are NOT in a special Virtual Lib

Use case:
about 50% of my Books has to be exported with very special Export Parameters. This is easy to do because they are all in a Bunch of Series and can bundled in a Virtuel Lib, for instance 'Export1Lib'.

But all the other Books should be exported with standard Parameters.
I need a virtuel Lib with the "all Books witch are NOT in 'Export1Lib'" Condition

kovidgoyal · 11-12-2021, 01:33 PM

Search for

not vl:"name of virtual library"

chaley · 11-12-2021, 01:35 PM

From the calibre documentation for searches:

Quote:

The special field vl is used to search for books in a Virtual library. For example, vl:Read will find all the books in the Read Virtual library. The search vl:Read and vl:"Science Fiction" will find all the books that are in both the Read and Science Fiction Virtual libraries. The value following vl: must be the name of a Virtual library. If the Virtual library name contains spaces then surround it with quotes.

This search should work:

Code:

not vl:"Export1Lib"

Note that the test for the virtual library name is case sensitive.

Adu von Tubka · 11-13-2021, 10:36 AM

Thank you.

11-12-2021, 12:12 PM	#1
Adu von Tubka Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2021 Device: PocketBook x	list all Books which are NOT in a Virtual Lib Hi, is it possible to list all Books which are NOT in a special Virtual Lib Use case: about 50% of my Books has to be exported with very special Export Parameters. This is easy to do because they are all in a Bunch of Series and can bundled in a Virtuel Lib, for instance 'Export1Lib'. But all the other Books should be exported with standard Parameters. I need a virtuel Lib with the "all Books witch are NOT in 'Export1Lib'" Condition

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11-12-2021, 01:33 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Search for not vl:"name of virtual library"

11-13-2021, 10:36 AM	#4
Adu von Tubka Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2021 Device: PocketBook x	Thank you.