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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
The same is true of file organization. The vast majority of us cut our eyeteeth on the traditional folder/filename tree system of organizing our files. It is easy for us to use because we are used to it and we see it at a glance. It is highly inefficient because it is pretty much one dimensional. Books can be classified in numerous ways. A single book may be classed as multiple genres, by author, by series, by sub-series, by series or sub-series number, by subject matter, by period, by the characters, by location of the story, by ISBN, etc. To be able to search a book by any of those criteria would require impossibly long filenames to include all the metadata. To organise them by all of those criteria would require filing multiple copies in multiple folders and subfolders of various branches of the tree. A way to cut down on the number of copies of files would be to use shortcuts to files but creating and maintaining them would be a royal pain.
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True, which is why I said a folder-like structure, which could also be implemented by using a collection-like structure. If you could be able to make sub-collections. Give a book a sub-tag. Simple as that. A sub-tag is the same object as a tag, but a child of the tag. So, if you want to show tags, you can still see all tags, normal and sub. If a tag has sub-tags in it, it will show those sub-tags. So, a sub-tag will show up twice in a tag-list. Once as child of a tag, and once "in the root" so to speak.
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
As far as having room for only one set of books in your computer goes, if you are running that close to filling your computer, you need to upgrade to a larger hard drive or invest in an external hard drive to store the original files on. File storage per GB is cheap nowadays.
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So, you'll buy me a new external storage drive? Because I don't have the €200 for a larger one (besides, if I had, I'd have gotten me that new Sony!)
I have my books stored on my external hard drive. In four formats: raw (which isn't much more than an unpacked epub structure), epub, mobi and PDF. And no, I don't use Calibre to make all those formats, I make use of a zipper, mobigen and LaTeX (and some homegrown handywork to stich it all together). The only format I don't use is epub (except to generate my mobi books). Because Calibre insists of making a copy of the books I add, it's a complete waste of space. I tried to import it all in Calibre, but it decided to handle each format as a different book, instead of making it all one book, with 3 formats...