Hierarchies in Libraries? (Beginner Question)

[ssands]

Hi, apologies in advance if this is covered somewhere, but I haven't found it.

I'm hoping I can organize ebooks hierarchically in Calibre.

For example, I'd like something like a folder that would hold all my Technology books and thus consolidate them in the interface, and not see them all of the time scattered by whatever search order I might have.

Is this possible in Calibre? I'm running the latest version.

Best,
S

[kovidgoyal]

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/sub_groups.html

[theducks]

Originally Posted by ssands

Hi, apologies in advance if this is covered somewhere, but I haven't found it.

I'm hoping I can organize ebooks hierarchically in Calibre.

For example, I'd like something like a folder that would hold all my Technology books and thus consolidate them in the interface, and not see them all of the time scattered by whatever search order I might have.

Is this possible in Calibre? I'm running the latest version.

Best,
S

Libraries or Virtual Libraries
There is no 'Folders'

Calibre does not expect (or want) you poking under the skirts. Just too much chance of damage to the Data Structure (where-how Calibre shelves books is part of the Data as much as the DB part)

VL's can be displayed just like any other Search. The benefit: A VL frees up the Search tool (sorta a Search within a Search) non-Fiction (I assume Fiction and don't waste the bytes, since that is what 98% of my Library is. General We don't have no stinking Generals in my US NAVY )

Hierarchical fields are better used for finer topic breakouts like Series cycles/branches (Per.Harper Hall) or tags sub-class (Science Fiction.Military)

[BetterRed]

@ssands - in essence I do similar to theducks, at the highest level I use virtual libraries - I think of them as the 'sections' that one finds in municipal libraries.

In my commercial book library I have a 'Section/#section' custom column, it is type Text, with a fixed set of values (Biographies, Fiction, and Reference)

I only content tag the Reference and Biographies sections, but sparsely and manually - I don't content tag Fiction. I have one virtual library for Biographies and another for Reference, for Fiction I have three virtual libraries (Fiction - Unread, Fiction - Read Again, Fiction - The Rest). The subsets are based on an AdminTags custom column (e.g. #section:"=fiction" and #admintags:"=read again" etc).

I prefer to segregate tags that relate to content e.g. 'political' and 'linguistics' from tags relating to administrative issues, eg 'read again', 'convert to epub', 'fix scanning errors'; hence my AdminTags column.

BR