hierarchical shelves

[JohnLines]

I have a large number of books, spread over a lot of different book cases, mostly with several shelved, and in some cases with a rear row of books, and unfortunately they are not as physically well organised as they should be.
This results in an unmanageable number of shelves when adding a book.

I suggest the database entry being unchanged, but some form of separator, e.g. '' (which is less likely to occur in existing shelf names - but might be needed as an escape, so '/' might be better), dividing the shelves into logical units. Bookwyrm would not need to care about what they meant, but the could be 'Room\Bookcase\Shelf' ,or 'SciFi\DrWho'.

The add a shelf interface would then become tree oriented, either add a new top level, or pick a top level, descent into it and keep descending until the new desired location is found.

Adding a book to a shelf would follow a similar pattern.

Showing the contents of a shelf at any level could then either show everything which matched the shelf name, or everything down to the next separator, to keep the number of results manageable.

I also use the app quite a bit, particularly appreciating its bar code scanning, and it would be useful if this too understood hierarchical shelves.