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Originally Posted by Goondu
Hi
I am new to Caliber but I think it is great.
I decide to use it for my ebook management.
Over the years, I have accumulated 500+ ebooks
Few questions:-
1) What is the quickest way to edit metadata and social metadata?
For example I have 20 plus books by Agatha Christine. They have various degree of completed metadatas. If I highlighted all my Agatha Christine books and click bulk metadata, I might get wrong metadata for some books. Going through one book at a time is quite time consuming
2) What's the easiest way to categorise books into a series?
Say for example my Agatha Christine's book again. Some of the books are part of a series eg Miss Marple. And they are from different publishers. So some metadata put them down as belonging to the `Miss Marple' serie, some don't. How do I sort the series out in the simplest way?
3) I notice some people classify their books as `Title - Author Last name, Author First name'. I prefer `Title - Author First name , Author Last name'.
Any advantage of the former?
Sorry if my questions sounds so mundane and anal, but I love to my ebboks collection sorted out nicely once and for all
Thanks
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I am not sure there is an 'easy' way
Some of what you 'have' to do, may be to make-up/avoid because of limitations of your reading device, Not Calibre.
My device uses files and folders.
Period.
I get to set the device (not the folder level
to: Date or Alpha or file-type (not very useful since 99.9% are EPUB))
Calibre allows only 1 series level
I have books that were written in 'Universe's' or Cycles as well as series
so these get Hyphenated series to keep them grouped
Darkover-Clingfire
Darkover-Age of Chaos
Darkover-Second age
Darkover-Anthologies
I store books on my device By Series(name)/series_index-Title-Author(optional)
I set my device to alpha-sort files and folders. Opnening a Darkover folder, will then list books in series Index order.
Since my series tend to have multiple Author (or Combinations), the author name MUST NOT be before the series number-Title or it will destroy the series sort usefulness.