Select multiple tags from tag page to power edit

As I create overarching Collections that will include books that are tagged differently (like a couple of dozen that begin "history-"), it has become apparent that it would be a lot easier if I could go to my Tag page, check boxes to select the ones I want, and then pull up all those books to power edit them into collections.

(I can't just search on "tag:history", as that brings up "art history", "natural history", etc.)

If you just want to add all of the books with one tag to a collection, why don't you just do it from the Tags page (Edit on the task now contain adding all of the books with this tag in a collection - alink "Change collections for books tagged "your_tag") at the bottom. You still need to get the tags one by one but it's faster than pulling them in power edit.

If you just want to add all of the books with one tag to a collection . . .

No, you're missing the point. What I want to do is add books tagged with a couple of dozen different tags to the same collection.

With your method, I would have to perform a separate task for each of those tags, time-consuming and tedious.

If I could simply check each one of the tags and say, "add all these to my History collection", it would be a lot quicker.

I get your point but doing it from the tags is still easier than poweredit - except if you have a good way to search only for the ones that you need.

Does searching "tag:history-*" bring up the right list for subsequent power-editing?

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Odd. It does.

I tried that yesterday evening, as it seemed a logical way to proceed, and it didn't work. It brought up only one book!

But today it's working.

Weird.

>6 Huh. That *is* weird. Glad it's working, though!