Collection without Fiction books.

James Chandler
James Chandler Member Posts: 407 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I'd like to create a collection sans fiction. Is this possible?

Thanks,

Jim

Philippians 2:3Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

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  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,211

    James Chandler said:

    I'd like to create a collection sans fiction. Is this possible?

    To a certain extent of precision: yes. Many people (me too) make it a habit to tag fiction works - such as some Vyrso freebies - with a tag "fiction". If you do the same, you can use a rule like * -mytag:fiction 

    If you didn't do the tagging yourself, you could rely on the tagging of others with a rule like * -tag:fiction (which I think includes community tag field - I'm currently not at my Logos PC to verify). You will find that some fiction works have not been tagged by enough people to enable the community tag, and some things are tagged as fiction by that minimum number of users, where others would use "real story" or "biography" or such tags.

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  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    The identification of fiction resources would have to be based on subject tagging.  I.e., this will give you a list of fiction books:

    subject:fiction

    and inversely, this should give a list of books that aren't fiction:

    * -subject:fiction

    But since most of the fiction books in my library are Vyrso or Personal Books, it's most likely they are not matched.  Plus you can't really rely on the Library of Congress subject tagging to be consistent.

    So I've taken to adding a personal tag of "fiction" to each fiction book I own to better identify them.  And so I can use this rule:

    * -subject:fiction -tag:fiction

    This rule also takes advantage of community tags; so if others have tagged a book as fiction then it will be excluded.

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,148

    Start by filtering Library with edition:ebook (Vyrso titles) and tag the fiction titles (select multiple titles to give them the same tag).

    Your collection rule would then look like, for example  type:monograph -mytag:fiction  (non-fiction monographs)

    EDIT: Based on Todd's response, my rule would become:-

    type:monograph -mytag:fiction -subject:fiction

    but you still have to tag  personal books (edition:user) and some Faithlife books (edition:logos type:monograph) as fiction.

    Dave
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  • James Chandler
    James Chandler Member Posts: 407 ✭✭

    Thanks all for the help.

    Philippians 2:3Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

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