See my books from tag page.

I would love to be able to click on a link on the tag page that would take me to all the books I own that have been labeled with that tag.

For example, looking for a book for SFFF CAT JANUARY: Steampunk, Gas Lamp and other historical SFFF, since I'm not too clear on what Steampunk is, I would be able to look at the steampunk page and see my books that qualify. http://www.librarything.com/tag/steampunk lists lots of books, and I don't have any on the first page. In fact, to find the books I own I have to say 'published recently' and click through to the last few pages. And then I still don't reall have a list because they are so spread out.

When I look at that page, I see up at the top, above the list of books, "You use: steampunk (15)", which does exactly what you request. Do you not see this? If not, are you by chance using the old design?

For people who do not use the tag themselves it would be useful to be able to see all of their books that someone has put the tag on as one page rather than scattered through the list.

>3 hailelib:

Oh, apologies, I misunderstood the request. I will let post #2 stand because I believe in owning my mistakes rather than trying to conceal them by attempting to change history. You can get what you're asking for from the Tag Mirror, so the data does exist, but not from the tag page itself.

>4 lorax: Never heard of tag mirror and just checked it out! Oh my God, what a fantastic feature!

Totally agree with >1 MarthaJeanne:, and would welcome a feature such as described.

Tag Mirror is fine, but it's got some annoying limitations:

• In Tag Mirror the books are displayed in a scrollable box, you have to open open the books one at a time to edit / check data. (Whereas the neighbouring Tag Cloud opens them in Your Books). A similiar limitation also goes for Tag page.
  
• It takes a long time to load a cloud, while accessing one selected Tag Page is quick.
  
• You may actually not find the tag you're wanting to examine, as Tag Mirror has a 1000 tag limit and no search function.
  
  

Yes, the tag mirror does not show me either 'steam punk' or 'authurian'. Ie it does not help me find the specific books I want to find in my collection. Off to leaf through pages and pages again.

>7 MarthaJeanne:

Hmm.

It may be too computationally expensive for them to put this on every tag page - I know that even Tag Mirror has caused problems in that respect. Still, putting the data that they're computing anyway for tag mirror on the tag pages would be nice, even though it wouldn't give you what you want in this case.

They are already doing the computation to put the checks on the page.

>9 MarthaJeanne:

Hmm, good point. Never mind, then.

Bump.

I wanted this too (wanted to see which of my works had been tagged by others as "public domain" so that I could find free ebook version to put on my phone). So I recycled some of the tag mirror code to make a GreaseMonkey script that adds a new link to every tag page ("My books globally tagged ______"). The new link brings up a pop-up, just like in the tag mirror, of your books that others have tagged as whatever that tag page is.

So while we wait two weeks or so ... here is the script page: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/11311-librarything-which-of-my-books-tagged

Thank you, >12 omargosh: ! This was useful in the extreme!!

Any chance it could open in a "Your books"-type view (as when you click a tag on a Work or Book page), instead of a pop-up? The scrolling within the pop-up got somewhat cumbersome when large numbers of books was returned. Plus, when working with tags I often find need for Power Edit and sort options.

>13 geitebukkeskjegg: Glad you find it useful!

BTW, if anyone installed it when I first posted, I made a bug fix yesterday since it wasn't working with certain tags.

As for your specific request, I'm pretty sure I can't make the list show in a catalog style. I'm just reusing some code that seems to have been made specifically for the tag mirror, and I don't see a way of integrating w/ the catalog code. (I also don't think I want to build something that approaches a tool that would allow for easy tagging based on other people's tags, which I think would go against Tim's philosophy. Yes, I guess I've made it easier to do that now, but not quite power-edit-easy. :-))

>14 omargosh: Ok on the request, it's a great tool anyway.

(About "easy tagging based on other people's tags". I see the point, but just in case Tim should read this, there is a counter argument: Your excellent script can be used for copying, but is most effective for correctly tagging books you've already entered with tags you're already using. Extremely useful if you've entered a heap of books (your entire library in my case) before you got around to start tagging. Or just discover that you've missed some.)

I thought that was already possible recently natively?

This would still be nice to have.

In the meantime, there's a workaround for technically-minded folks posted at

https://www.librarything.com/topic/286648#6376397 to allow a Tag Mirror-style view of "books you have that others have tagged with X" when X does not appear in the tag mirror interface.

Does the script in >12 omargosh: not do the same thing? I'd have expected it was the same exact deal, just integrated rather than having to input javascript yourself via the console.