How to create better collections?

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell

Hey folks!  So a while back I had created a collection called Bible Studies. I went to take a look at it to see if I could find  short study to do while I'm away on holidays only to find that my collection has 518 books, including Encyclopaedias, commentaries and study bibles. Not really useful.

So, how would you suggest I add criteria so that the final collection is ONLY Bible studies (i.e Kay Arthur type stuff on books of the Bible or topics.

Obviously, asking me to search by authors won't help as I have over 5000 books and really have no idea what authors I may or may not have, see what I mean?

I'm just trying to find a way to eliminae anything that is not strictly Bible Study.

Any thoughts? THANKS! 

Mark Barnes

I'm just trying to find a way to eliminae anything that is not strictly Bible Study.

I have a collection called "Bible Study Guides" which works fairly well:

type:monograph AND (title:("bible study", "bible studies"), series:("bible study", "bible studies"), subject:("bible study", "bible--study"))

You might want to remove the type:monograph AND to include more commentaries, but that's up to you.