Is There a Way to View Multiple Tags at Once? (NOT Tagmash)

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Is There a Way to View Multiple Tags at Once? (NOT Tagmash)

1GraceCollection
Feb 19, 2025, 11:32 pm

I often find out about new features and things I didn't know I could do though Talk messages, so before abandoning all hope of being able to do what I'm trying to do, I thought I'd ask here first.

Let's say, hypothetically, I have some books tagged 'Fantasy', some books tagged 'Sci-Fi', and some books tagged 'SFF', and I want to look at all the books in my library that have any of these tags, but not the books that don't have any of them. Is there a way to display ONLY books tagged 'Fantasy' OR 'Sci-Fi' OR 'SFF', all at once? (In this hypothetical, there aren't any that I have tagged as 'Fantasy' and 'Sci-Fi', for example, so inclusive or/exclusive or is a non-issue.)

2eclbates
Feb 19, 2025, 11:37 pm

In your books, in the search bar at the top right, click the down arrow and then click advanced search. :)

3GraceCollection
Edited: Feb 19, 2025, 11:41 pm

>2 eclbates: Ah. See? I'm learning something new in the Talk feature. :) Thank you for your help.

4eclbates
Feb 19, 2025, 11:43 pm

>3 GraceCollection: You're very welcome! I've been a user since 2011 and I only noticed that I could do boolean searches a couple months ago lol. I guess it just never came up for me in the previous 13 years?

5GraceCollection
Feb 19, 2025, 11:49 pm

>4 eclbates: I can't believe it's been 13 years since 2011... and I am learning something new every day, even when I already thought I knew everything! I've been using Microsoft Office Word for... ahem, the maths there is going to make me feel old. A long time. I just learned recently you can crtl + y to redo an action you undid, instead of using the redo menu in the top left corner.

6hschwartz14394
Dec 25, 2025, 1:35 pm

It doesnt work for me? it comes up empty when I put my two tags in for advanced search?

7AnnieMod
Dec 25, 2025, 2:00 pm

>6 hschwartz14394: make sure you use OR and not AND.