Collections and Print Library

Jeremy White

Quick questions (maybe?).

Are we not able to add Print Library titles into collections? If not, any suggested work arounds? I tried to manually drag and drop a print library title into a collection it doesn't seem to take - but maybe it is user error?

Are my print library titles included in the Books search?(I know that that would be in the All Books search). I was a good boy and did a search and found a previous thread - Feature: Print Library Catalog — Logos Community

Just trying to understand what can and can't be done at the intersection between Print Library and AI. Interested in how others are using the print library function. For instance, I have access to a theological library and so there are some titles in my Print Library that I don't actually own but do have access to through my library.

Yasmin Stephen

First off, you can’t add PL books to collections. As for Smart Search, you can tag your PL books and use these tags as filters for your search. You can also search inside individual PL books with Smart Search (I did that for the first time yesterday). (This would also apply to Precise.)

Jeremy White

OK thanks - that's what I was seeing - although I did notice some weirdness with the collections. I dragged and dropped a PL book manually into a collection and it didn't display but the number of books it said were in the collection increased by 1 (?). It only exhibits that behavior for the first book and if you add a non-PL book it resets to the correct number. So, I'll report that as software quirk.

But it sounds like what I need to do is tag the books that I want to treat as a "collection" which co-mingles PL titles along with works I own in Logos and then do a smart search that way.

Yasmin Stephen

I think Logos is already aware of this quirk, if it’s the same one I mentioned here.

Jeremy White

Yep - that's exactly the behavior I observed.

What is the syntax needed to limit my smart search to books with a specific tag? I've tried a number of options but without success.

Yasmin Stephen

When you click on Your Books (in Books search), you'll see a dropdown list of options; you can select Print Library from there (that'll search only your PL books). You can also select collections, or type in your filters (e.g. mytag:puritan or author:spurgeon). Then enter your search query and continue as usual.