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#1 Posted : Wednesday, August 30, 2023 1:47:32 PM(UTC)
When adding or importing books sometimes I can’t add a bookmark specifying the physical location of the book. It would be nice to be able to filter my book collection at a later time to identify books without bookmarks so I could add the location tag without having to search my whole library manually for books needing tags.

It would also be nice to be able to filter by the number of bookmarks, since some books don’t get thoroughly tagged when adding a whole bunch of books all at once.

Also if bulk importing by adding a string of isbn numbers it would be nice to add a tag to the whole group. Like if I scan all the books on a shelf I might want to automate the tagging with a bookmark “top shelf” or something.
#2 Posted : Wednesday, August 30, 2023 2:45:39 PM(UTC)
Bookmarks is actually the next feature that our developers are working on (once we get the issue of search bots slowing down the site resolved). The most important expansion of bookmark filters is being able to add more than one and to exclude bookmarks. The next most asked for features are a way to quickly add a bookmark to recipes in search results (rather than having to open the bookmarks screen individually for each recipe) and being able to add a bookmark to all recipes in a book e.g. location.

We do hope to add other bookmark features such as those you mention. I think your first and second request are effectively the same - it would be a sort of your Bookshelf books or recipes by number of bookmarks. At the top are those with the most, at the end are those with none.
#3 Posted : Friday, September 1, 2023 6:54:01 PM(UTC)

Bookmarks are the single most important feature for me on EYB. I have zillions (well, over a thousand) books, and finding them is HUGE! I just built a library (room) in my house and am moving the majority of my stash into all-wall shelving. Some still reside here-and-there in other shelving in the house. I have a large list of private bookmarks, including at which location each book is shelved. Each book also has its bookmark as to type, author, etc....lots of bookmarks. Since I still cannot resist buying new books (thank you, new Goodwill store next to my grocery, where every book is $1.99), I have new ones arriving every week when I grocery shop. Many are currently piled on tables in the library, awaiting definitive shelving. While they wait, I look at every book (laying around?) to see if I have entered it into the EYB data base. I do this by placing a small neon-colored sticker on the first page of each book as I enter it into the "import books" list. That way, I know this is a part of EYB. I label the dot stickers with pencil as to their final shelving place. Books with stickers have gone into EYB, but no ID pencil mark means they are still likely to be floating around, homeless. I do the same with Kindles. Each kindle book must have a tick on the electronic list indicating that that book is also entered into EYB. The physical stickers come off easily, but my "recycles" go back to Goodwill and new customers may wonder why there are little colorful dots stuck on the cover pages. Love Eat Your Books. I collect cookbooks. Now I need more time to cook and eat from them.

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