(Delete if this is judged to be to stupid, I AM new at this. Now I have been crawling around this board all day, but I still wonder what to do...)
I just got my first ebook-reader (Sony PRS 650), and I like it. It seems to do everything I expected of it, which is not so strange, maybe, as I only want to read books
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On the other hand, I read a lot. (For a seven day vacation, I brought 20 books, and had 4 left when I returned. And yes, I did do a lot more than read all the time).
So, an ebook-reader seemed like a good idea. No more overweight when flying.
I am also a "series-freak", I love series. And I always go back and forth when I read, looking up things in previous books etc.
And there is the problem, right there. How do I arrange my reader so that I can actually FIND the books I am looking for?
I get the point about using tags for "groups". Originally I was going to group by genre (crime, adventure, sci-fi, fantasy etc), but then I realized this would look great in theory, but I would not find the books on my reader afterwards.
Then I figured, if I use tags with Author and Series I should have groups that should be meaningful to me. But just importing from Calibre, I would not know what book is where in the series... And as a series-freak, I just HAVE TO read the books in the right order.
- How do you arrange your books?
- Should I change the Title to "series, number, author, name of book" in order to find anything?
- And then keep the crime/fantasy/sci-fi-grouping?
- And how do I do a "search/replace" so that I do not have to edit my 250 books manually?
Like I said, I love my reader, and Calibre seems to be just the program to keep me organized, but presently I am running around with 10 books in my reader (all different authors), and that is about it, if I want to keep control. I may have wasted money on my new 32GB memory-card;(