Searching a Collection that contains books that are only in my Print Library?

I am going to do a study of Acts and I wanted to create a collection of only a few commentaries and study bibles to focus on. I have the 4 volume Acts commentary by Craig Keener - physical copy, not Logos. I've added it to my "print library" in the library section.

If I do a search of Books, "Your Books" it will return results from Keener's books and I can go get the paper volumes find the page and read from there. You can see one such result below.

However, if I add these paper volumes to a collection, which the Collection feature allows, it doesn't work. First of all, the "Plus these books" part of the collection show the books are added. I've also added the Acts volume from the Tyndale NT Commentary, which I own on paper, but not Logos. The ESV Study Bible I own in Logos (and paper). You can see the collection is now acting strange. All 5 volumes (4 physical, 1 Logos) are in the "Plus These Books" section, but are not showing in the "Resulting Collection." It shows 5 books, but 4 are ghosted out.

When I search, and use the Books: Topic: Acts Text collection, only the ESV Study Bible results are now returned. No matter how far I scroll, no physical books are listed. In fact, if I remove the ESV Study Bible from this collection, the search results return nothing.

So one of a few things is happening:

It is a bug and you shouldn't be able to add physical books to a collection because it really isn't supported.
It is a bug and you should be able to add physical books, but the collection feature and search feature isn't working correctly
It isn't a bug and I need some educating.

All of this is done using the Mac OS version 44.1.2 version.

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Roger Pitot

Hi Ed

You can't add print library books to a collection, it has never been allowed!

So that's why they do not show in any collection.

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Roger Pitot

Hi Ed

You can't add print library books to a collection, it has never been allowed!

So that's why they do not show in any collection.

NichtnurBibelleser

@Ed Here's a workaround that I use:

I own all books by Hans Urs von Balthasar in German in Print. As far as they are in Logos/Verbum, I added them to the print library. Then I gave them a tag manually: "v B".

Whenever I want to search them and only inside them, I select "Mytag:v B" under "Books".

Works fine for me.

so the bug is the collection feature should not allow adding them in the first place.

Thanks for the idea @NichtnurBibelleser -

Oh, this is perfect @NichtnurBibelleser - I can tag any book in my library then do a smart search of that tag. Much easier to manage than collections, and more powerful. Thanks!

DMB

Tagging is soooo much better than collections!