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Theeo123 · 11-24-2010, 05:34 PM

Lady Fitzgerald.
actually I didn't I only said that Calibre's system of Tag's would not be the most efficient, not that File/folder would be more so, it was an example of where Calibre's tagging system might not be optimal, I never claimed to have a superior alternative on that one actually.

Using Calibre's system, every volume of the encyclopedia, would come up with the same author, title, publication date, et.c essentially 95% of all the metadata would be the same. Vol 1 Vol 2, Vol 3 or a - f, g - k those would be different.

now assuming the average person doesn't have the volume titles of their encyclopedia set memorized, and you are looking for something that begins with "F" you can't just type "F" into calibre's search and expect the proper item to come up you'd get hundreds of results. you could use operators, and narrow it to "encyclopedia" and "Britannica" and "F" and probably get it, but by the time you typed that all out.... well you get the idea.

typing "Britannica" and then looking manually through the titles of your 12 volumes is more efficient yes?

If the manual folder structure you create in windows is simply "encyclopedia Britannica" with 12 PDF's inside it. It would honestly be quicker than launching Calibre, typing names, sorting results etc.

It should be noted though, that this is NOT Calibre's intended use really. Most people are not going to be using Calibre, to sort PDF copies of an encyclopedia, to load onto their E-Reader.

Tech journals it's highly subjective, If you manually Enter a lot of Tags, to denote individual articles, within the issue you are adding and so forth, it would be much quicker, Assuming you don't spend an hour reading each and every article, and then developing tags for all of them to add-on book, you would run into similar problems. using the cover browser to see what articles are in an issue could lead you to find the appropriate one quickly, however, this would not be much different from using thumbnail view in explorer.

Again though, this is not necessarily Calibre's intended purpose, these are rare, and special circumstances, not the norm.

11-24-2010, 05:34 PM	#17
Theeo123 Member Posts: 17 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: Kindle DX	Lady Fitzgerald. actually I didn't I only said that Calibre's system of Tag's would not be the most efficient, not that File/folder would be more so, it was an example of where Calibre's tagging system might not be optimal, I never claimed to have a superior alternative on that one actually. Using Calibre's system, every volume of the encyclopedia, would come up with the same author, title, publication date, et.c essentially 95% of all the metadata would be the same. Vol 1 Vol 2, Vol 3 or a - f, g - k those would be different. now assuming the average person doesn't have the volume titles of their encyclopedia set memorized, and you are looking for something that begins with "F" you can't just type "F" into calibre's search and expect the proper item to come up you'd get hundreds of results. you could use operators, and narrow it to "encyclopedia" and "Britannica" and "F" and probably get it, but by the time you typed that all out.... well you get the idea. typing "Britannica" and then looking manually through the titles of your 12 volumes is more efficient yes? If the manual folder structure you create in windows is simply "encyclopedia Britannica" with 12 PDF's inside it. It would honestly be quicker than launching Calibre, typing names, sorting results etc. It should be noted though, that this is NOT Calibre's intended use really. Most people are not going to be using Calibre, to sort PDF copies of an encyclopedia, to load onto their E-Reader. Tech journals it's highly subjective, If you manually Enter a lot of Tags, to denote individual articles, within the issue you are adding and so forth, it would be much quicker, Assuming you don't spend an hour reading each and every article, and then developing tags for all of them to add-on book, you would run into similar problems. using the cover browser to see what articles are in an issue could lead you to find the appropriate one quickly, however, this would not be much different from using thumbnail view in explorer. Again though, this is not necessarily Calibre's intended purpose, these are rare, and special circumstances, not the norm.