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Theeo123 · 11-23-2010, 05:42 PM

I know that one question addressed before is the ability to store books in calibre, without having it re-organised the physical folder structure
universally this seems to get shot down with the "tags are better, it does a better job than you can" sort of argument.

I'm not here to continue that argument, but to hopefully find a solution that works.

Calibre is GREAT for a lot of books, fiction, especially, author sorting, title sorting etc. even if you collect a lot of "for dummies" type books you can tag them by category topic etc.

Right now I have almost 5,000 books in my calibre library, it's about 6.5 gig's on disk.

what I have not included is my extensive 60 Gig collection of RPG books. almost all of these are in PDF, sadly, some of them don't look so great on e-readers, also not all my players have e-readers.

so as it stands now the RPG books are organized, generally speaking as thus
RPG books
-- Game
---- Edition
-------- Player books
-------- GM books

so on so forth. these books often have multiple authors or even entire creative teams, and the author is unimportant.

I can put these into Calibre, and add a ton of tags, to try and make them all easy to find, but it's far from a simple task but it is do-able.

where I run into a problem is that I them have all these, hundreds, and hundreds of books, all just sort of scattered around within calibre's main e-book folder, and the folders are titled by author. meaning there is no way to look up the books except THROUGH calibre.

meaning other people on my network can't find what they want anymore.

As it stands now I can simple share my RPG books folder, and everyone can find what they want easily and quickly. However I want to be able to use calibre's management & conversion features when putting the books on my Kindle.

I can't come up with a solution short of simple having the books stored in two different places, and eating up a TON of hard drive space.

How can i let Calibre manage my RPG books, but still make them accessible to my gaming group/network?

11-23-2010, 05:42 PM	#1
Theeo123 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle DX	Folder organization & Role-playing Books I know that one question addressed before is the ability to store books in calibre, without having it re-organised the physical folder structure universally this seems to get shot down with the "tags are better, it does a better job than you can" sort of argument. I'm not here to continue that argument, but to hopefully find a solution that works. Calibre is GREAT for a lot of books, fiction, especially, author sorting, title sorting etc. even if you collect a lot of "for dummies" type books you can tag them by category topic etc. Right now I have almost 5,000 books in my calibre library, it's about 6.5 gig's on disk. what I have not included is my extensive 60 Gig collection of RPG books. almost all of these are in PDF, sadly, some of them don't look so great on e-readers, also not all my players have e-readers. so as it stands now the RPG books are organized, generally speaking as thus RPG books -- Game ---- Edition -------- Player books -------- GM books so on so forth. these books often have multiple authors or even entire creative teams, and the author is unimportant. I can put these into Calibre, and add a ton of tags, to try and make them all easy to find, but it's far from a simple task but it is do-able. where I run into a problem is that I them have all these, hundreds, and hundreds of books, all just sort of scattered around within calibre's main e-book folder, and the folders are titled by author. meaning there is no way to look up the books except THROUGH calibre. meaning other people on my network can't find what they want anymore. As it stands now I can simple share my RPG books folder, and everyone can find what they want easily and quickly. However I want to be able to use calibre's management & conversion features when putting the books on my Kindle. I can't come up with a solution short of simple having the books stored in two different places, and eating up a TON of hard drive space. How can i let Calibre manage my RPG books, but still make them accessible to my gaming group/network?