Home screen options for managing multiple books

[Inquisitor-Ignotorum]

Configuration: Windows 10, Lute v. 3.4.2 installed via pip

Hello. I was recently making changes to multiple books, and it took a while to do everything book-by-book. That led to the following idea, and your thoughts would be welcomed.

The user could save a nice amount of time and energy if the "Home" screen and the "Book Archive" screen included options for rapid management of multiple books. The below features may be useful:

• (for the "Home" screen) "Archive Selected Books" and (for the "Book Archive" screen) "Unarchive Selected Books": this option could turn the book listing into a checklist, letting the user choose multiple books to archive or unarchive, respectively. A confirmation dialogue before the decision is finalised would be great, to ensure that the user did not make a mistake.
• "Delete Selected Books": this option could turn the book listing into a checklist, letting the user choose multiple books to delete, with a confirmation dialogue given before the decision is finalised.
• "Add Tags to Selected Books": this option could turn the book listing into a checklist, letting the user choose multiple books to add specific tags to.
• "Remove Tags from Selected Books": this option could turn the book listing into a checklist, letting the user choose multiple books to remove specific tags from.
• "Remove all Tags from Selected Books": this option could turn the book listing into a checklist, letting the user choose multiple books to remove all tags from (alternatively, an option to "Remove all Tags" could be given in the screen that would appear after the user would choose the aforementioned "Remove Tags from Selected Books" option).

Thank you very much for your work. I think that Lute is great and use it every day.

[jzohrab]

Hi @Inquisitor-Ignotorum - thanks for the notes, this makes sense. 👍

I may need to un-complicate some of the code first, so I've opened a new issue, https://github.com/LuteOrg/lute-v3/issues/442. It's related to adding the checkmarks to the bookmarks ... this code is sometimes hard to understand!

Thank you very much for the detailed write up, appreciated. Cheers!