02-01-2020, 04:59 AM | #1 |
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Virtual Libraries question
So, I have a big bunch of books on architecture, a big bunch of books on history, as well as a miscellaneous bunch of books in all genres.
It was easy to make Virtual Libraries for the history and architecture books. However, I also want a library with all of the books that are not in any virtual library. How do I do that? Calibre unhelpfully defaults to showing me All Books, which sort of defeats the purpose of sequestering architecture and history in their own libraries. |
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VL Name: Other Books, Search expression: not tags:"=history" and not tags:"=architecture"
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Thanks, I'll do that. It's not quite what I asked for, but it works for my simple case.
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AFAIK calibre doesn't offer what I think you asked for: a 'system generated' VL of books not in any other VL.
You could probably do it via a composite column (i.e. one built from other columns). I'll call it #notinanyvls. The column template would interrogate the list of VL's for which a book 'qualifies', if the list is empty it would set #notinanyvls to true. You'd define a VL Not in any VL with search expression #notinanyvls:true. The Tutorials section of the calibre user guide has extensive doco on calibre's Template language. BR |
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