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Originally Posted by Graham
Wouldn't that limit you to tagging books with only one genre?
Graham
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true, though you could still tag it with other genres in the keywords... not quite the same, of course.
Somehow, for me, it would be no loss, I don't actually tag books with more than one genre, though I understand it maybe useful for some purposes.
My main problem is that having books sorted by author doesn't really work:
I wouldn't want to have to remember the names of 50 authors of various programming books, in order to find the one book dealing with XML in Python...
Bookstores certainly sort their shelves by genre first, subject second, and author third. The Barns&Nobles in Santa Monica sections their floors by genre, then shelves are by subject, and in a given subject, you get an alphabetic setup by author.
Accessing books in Calibre's directory from windows explorer is an absolutely useless excercise, cause there's just loads of folders with author names that mean nothing to me.
Currently, I'm misusing the series field to sort books into directories that work for finding related books: one series is called Python, another is called Database, another Java, another Jack Vance, another H.P.Lovecraft, (those writers made their own genre anyway) etc.
Its not optimal use of Calibre's facilities, but at least I can sort the books into folders that allow me to quickly find what I'm looking for.
my save template looks like this:
{series}/{title} ({pubdate}) - {isbn} {publisher}
You can see, I don't even bother with the author in the filename, I could care less who wrote it, really...
If you have mostly fiction books instead of technical books, authors matter more, since most people will never forget who wrote your favorite stories