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Is it not possible to have multiple collections here? As far as I can see I can only create one collection of "books" and that's it? And you can't even name that collection?

If I have seen this correctly (and I hope not), it falls seriously short of serious book collectors.

@Ulcooh

You do have one collection of books. By means of filters you can select subsets in your collection by type, author, series etc ...

Incidentally, I am a serious collector of (comic) books and do not think that Catawiki is seriously inadequate with this system.

In any case, this is not useful for me. Unfortunately.

Thanks for the info.

Perhaps you can describe your problem. Then we can help you better. Who knows, there may already be a solution, but you just haven't found it yet.

I want to be able to create and name different catalogs from my different book collections, not just "books". If not, this is not what I'm looking for And I fear that many other book collectors will also run into this.

In the worst case, you could solve this by creating multiple accounts, but then you will lose the total overview.

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I am a very serious collector of books and I have many, really many, but I have not yet found a problem to give that place within CW. I have science fiction, boys' books, comics, Dutch literature, westerns, oriental books, lots of nature leaves, man, I don't have time to even name everything ...

Let alone read ..... :-)

It is probably a merchant who wants to publish catalogs without notifying the importers or CataWiki. I think they sign up with CataWiki just to get information from it. In my opinion they are abusers of the system.

That you use CataWiki for your own benefit makes sense if you are a trader, but then you also use the CataWiki system and have your own shop within CataWiki (or am I too idealistic now?).

Well I have a kind of 'problem' that is that I collect books about Aceh (Aceh) (province in North Sumatra, Indonesia).

I (said the fool) want them under Aceh, not the 1st under Roman, the 2nd under Nature, the 3rd under history, the 4th Comics, the 5th weekly and the 6th under war and the 7th under cookbooks and the 8th under dictionary etc. etc,

But that is not possible, so I will wait with entering until the possibility that you can (also) make your own filter in it, do you understand what I mean ???

In fact, if I can also put coins, swords, shields, jewelry, games, war medallies, ammulets, music, films, posters, paintings, maps and clothing / household goods under the Aceh denominator, I could be completely happy, because I don't collect cookbooks, dictionaries etc etc but got them because I collect Aceh ;-)

I have the same problem with stamps, I have my own topic 'bad men' in which I collect stamps from men who I find bad, I mention Sadam, Hitler, Mao, Stalin but also Popes and Robert ten Brink , that's completely private, she doesn't think that's bad, right?

Now they are among my other stamps that are separate from that collection

It is again vague from me but maybe Ulcooh means that too, some people do not collect a standard, a friend of mine collects stamps from (half naked) negresses, that is a hopeless topic, he is probably the only one who collects it like that, you should also be able to create private topics, I would really like,

I hope it is clear what I mean ????

Clear enough.

'Wait for the theme register, see what is already possible, and then react again if necessary', I would say.

@Arco,

But some Themes are too personal such as e.g. Bad men, but you could, for example (and I know them) save ugly LP covers, that's personal because what I think is bad or you don't see ugly money for someone else already see me arguing about whether or not Mao in bad men theme, or that the LP cover of (a naked) Prince is not ugly at all ;-)

Or a theme 'naked negresses' or 'potato dishes' with stamps or 'comic books with a dog' or 'CDs with the mouth harp as an instrument' or 'postcards with (somewhere) a buldozer on them' etc etc. not in your theme list anyway but ... someone collects them

Take a stamp from Hilter,

I collect it because I collect bad men

Pietje collects it because he collects World War II

Klaasje because he collects heads of state

and Jantje because he collects Germany,

The same stamp is collected for different reasons, you 'should' be able to indicate that in your private collection while it is simply listed under Germany in the catalog and an Aceh dictionary is under dictionaries, right ???, I would find it an improvement

The point is that CataWiki is an online Catalog, created by and for collectors, where you can indicate whether you have something or would like to sell it. It is not a piece of software that you install on your computer and can adapt to your own wishes.

For that you have to export your collection to excel and then sort by the theme of your choice. Then he is very personal and adapted to your wishes.

The problem lies in the word 'online'. To then personalize the collection of every CataWiki collector is an impossible task because everyone has different wishes. You already mentioned that yourself.

What is possible is to add themes to an item, because as far as I know that is a free entry column for each category. So if someone wants to add the theme 'naked negresses' to an item, they can do so and they can sort their collection by that theme.

What is possible is to add themes to an item, because as far as I know that is a free entry column for each category. So if someone wants to add the theme 'naked negresses' to an item, they can do so and they can sort their collection by that theme.

Incorrect.

So if someone wants to add the theme 'naked negresses' to an item, they can do so and they can sort their collection by that theme.

I don't think that's possible. On the other hand, 'Naked Hague Women' is acceptable.

@DisneyMeentwijc,

The problem lies in the word 'online'. To then personalize the collection of every CataWiki collector is an impossible task because everyone has different wishes.

So I don't know / I doubt it,

Of course the catalog, the catalog must remain stamps with stamps and dictionaries with dictionaries, but being able to create a private theme should not be VERY difficult in terms of programming / software, I want to say many collectors (that I know) cannot do anything for that reason. little with Catawiki.

For some types of collectors it is a major defect, an opportunity for Catawiki, right?

It is also not a criticism of Catawiki, but there are still opportunities for more of this (for more members, users, so turnover for Cata and more people entering data again)

What is possible is to add themes to an item, because as far as I know that is a free entry column for each category. So if someone wants to add the theme 'naked negresses' to an item, they can do that and they can sort their collection by that theme.

Okay, with the theme 'Bad men' or 'Ugly LP cover' then?, I put them in the theme and Pietje who doesn't find it takes them out again

Or my Aceh collection then I have to create the Aceh theme with Books, Coins, Paintings, Games, Swords, War Medallies, Clothing, Matches, Maps, Ornaments, Pottery, Posters, Postcards, CDs, with the very real chance that I am in the Netherlands / World who collects that theme, and so does everyone who collects something so 'special' ???? then there are 200,000 (private) themes in stamps, that does not help anyone, right?

Helaas, ik heb het inderdaad nagekeken en het themarubriek bij boeken komt het dichtst bij met het veld Soort. Dit is een keuzeveld en daar kan je geen andere soorten/thema's aan toevoegen. Zo verzamel ik boeken over Amsterdam en die wil ik toch niet allemaal bij Geografie (Amsterdam) plaatsen, maar ook diverse bijvoorbeeld bij Geschiedenis.

Nu weet ik wel dat ik meerdere Soorten kan aangeven, maar als ik boeken over Amsterdam (waar niet altijd Amsterdam in de titel staat, maar er wel over gaat) wil opzoeken, dan weet ik niet van te voren welke Soorten Amsterdam bevatten.

Verder verzamel ik ook boeken over Disneyana (allerlei boeken die over de Grote Meester van de strips gaan). Die Soort mis ik dus ook nog en dan heb ik het niet over strips (maar bijvoorbeeld naslagwerken, dat zijn al wel Catalogi).

Als ze de boekenrubriek ook willen thematiseren, dan moet er op zijn minst wel een keuzeveld Thema te kiezen zijn.

Alas, I did indeed check and the theme section in books comes closest to the Type field. This is an optional field and you cannot add other types/themes to it. For example, I collect books about Amsterdam and I don't want to put them all under Geography (Amsterdam), but also several, for example, under History.

Now I know that I can indicate several Types, but if I want to look up books about Amsterdam (which do not always say Amsterdam in the title, but are about it), then I do not know in advance which Types contain Amsterdam.

I also collect books about Disneyana (all kinds of books about the Great Master of comics). So I also miss that sort and then I'm not talking about comics (but reference works, for example, which are already catalogs).

If they also want to theme the book section, then there must be at least one choice field Theme to choose from.

@ Jouke

If we already add a theme field to large sections such as books and comics, it will soon be a lot more complicated to make a closed list that covers all sections.

It is almost impossible to do now, because we waited too long to make these kinds of closed lists.
It should have been there two years ago, when it was still manageable.
And it gets more complicated every day, because theme is an open field in many sections, and the strangest themes are occasionally filled in.
On the other hand, you now have to wait and see to what extent themes will be introduced in the books that are already there ...
That kind of field has to be split later, into what a theme is and what kind.
All in the "planning".

What Sinbad wants, to be able to create groups within your own collection, I think is a good idea.
Since you can already add notes to your copy, a link should also be possible in theory.

Related to this, a my first requests were more control over your own collection .
That this is still not possible is the reason that I no longer use the comic section of Catawiki (to browse through it, but no longer to keep track of my collection)
Which is a shame for me, because it is my largest collection area.

If we are going to work with theme rubrics, it will probably also be nice for theme collectors to turn certain themes "off", while others don't.
Now it is all or nothing.

And here's another wish to have more control over your collection .

It would be nice if these 3 things could be viewed at the same time.

Inderdaad ben ik het ook met voorgaande schrijvers eens en meer controle over je eigen verzameling is natuurlijk ieders wens.

Arwin, dat is lang geleden dat ik die wensenlijst had bekeken. Ik zou graag op je wens willen stemmen, maar helaas, ik heb geen stemmen meer over. ;(  Dat betekent of dat de wensenlijst niet kleiner word (en ik ben ook maar 1 van de velen) òf de wensenlijst word niet bijgewerkt en is ook door de ontwikkelaars in de steek gelaten en kijken alleen nog maar naar het forum.

Indeed, I also agree with previous writers and more control over your own collection is of course everyone's wish.

Arwin, it's been a long time since I looked at that wish list. I would like to vote for your wish, but unfortunately, I have no votes left. ;( That means either that the wish list is not getting smaller (and I am only 1 of many) or the wish list is not being updated and has also been abandoned by the developers and only looking at the forum.

Occasionally things are completed that are on that list, but that is not noticeable because it is so long.
And if it concerns a wish that you did not vote for yourself, you will of course not hear anything about it.

Lots of small improvements are also being implemented silently.
Then it sometimes seems that little has happened, but that is not the case.

Maybe something for the newsletter? Then at least there is something else in it than just the daily offer. Although for me reporting about the improvements does not have to be done on a daily basis, but more often than not or hardly

In the 'my collections' section you can assign all kinds of items from your collection (s) to a location.

It would be nice if you could assign additional (virtual) locations for the items, and if you could display the items at / in that location. You do not use the 'location' function to indicate an actual location "attic, banana box 4" but to indicate how an item fits in YOUR collection and subsets. The field 'location' could then also be called 'showcase', for example

To learn more about each other's specialist collections, at least one such 'showcase' could be made visible at the profile.

I have suggested this to Rene before, it is probably on the wish list, but not on the priority list ..

@ This-Raft,

attic, banana box 4

I also have that location cool ;-), I thought I was quite unique in that