Thread: Number of books / size managed with Calibre
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Old 08-01-2010, 07:18 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by icq70610 View Post
1) how many books you guys have and whats the size of your calibre folder? my numbers are: 1628 books / 2.65 GB
My library has 2330 books taking up 1.5G of space. All of my covers are 600x800 and 2225 of the books are epub.

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Im not realy into importing them into Calibre because I fear it becomes a mess in organization and makes it almost impossible finding something to read.
With the tags, saved searches, restricted views I don't see how the organization can be a mess.

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currently I even have stored searches to exclude the 500+ scientific documents allready in calibre. but merging them with novels, and normal books is not really usefull.
So you are already versed in saved searches, you can also have restricted views of your library and if you must, there is now the easy option of accessing multiple libraries via the book icon in the top bar.
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