Multi-select or tag-upon-scan

Hi, I'm scanning my books and am looking for a way to bulk-tag the books. I have used the power edit on the web, however there isn't a way to easily multi-select - e.g. select one, then select one 20 books further down and have it select all books in-between. This would be really useful if you have sorted books by scan entry time.

An alternate solution would be to have the mobile app allow application of a tag during the review process after several books have been scanned but I haven't seen a way to do this.

Welcome any tips and tricks for scanning a medium-size library ~3k books.

thanks!

I don't think there's a way to apply the same tag/s to multiple books while scanning, but there is once they are in your catalogue. Just select multiple books in your catalogue on LT site and use power edit (lightning icon in the top row). Don't forget to close power edit afterwards.

Thanks, I am able to do that.

I'm wondering if there is a way they could add batch-select to the web-interface - e.g. select a row, then shift-click another row and it selects all rows in-between.

>3 carolusmagnus: There are several options once you open power edit: select all (entire catalogue), select page (all currently showing on page), and then you can deselect the few you want. Alternatively, perhaps you can use search to isolate the group you want and then use power edit on those. AFAIK, using CTRL or shift for multiple select does not work in catalogue

Edit: IIRC you can set collections that will automatically be set in the app when scanning, so in addition to whatever collection/s you'd normally assign, you can create a collection for say all books to be tagged xy. Later you can apply one or more tags to all of those in a single go and remove the collection when done.

hi Sandra, your last suggestion was a good one, I ended up creating a new collection called 'new-shelf' and when I scan books they all get added to this, then I can select just that collection, tag everything, clean everything up, then remove everything from that collection and do the next shelf. Thanks for the idea!