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Originally Posted by David Bowen
Thanks for your quick replies.
To answer your questions (and curiosity) my present library contains 13750 books and I'm trying to only "load" the books that cover a certain subject/topic to make them easier to search and find information. Some of my subjects have close to a thousand books. I'm new to using Calibre and thought that putting books into a related subject library was the easiest way to go. I would then tag them within their individual libraries. I also plan to share my collections and not everyone wants everthing I've got, therefore I could just give them smaller libraries that interest them. In addition the physical size of these books is close to 285gb.
David
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Ok, based on what you just said, you should be able to keep everything in one library. Calibre pretty much has no limits on how much it can handle (there is probably an upper limit but there probably haven't been that many books written yet). The only problem you might run into is it might take a little bit longer to open calibre.
When you want to share your books (you might want to look into the legalities of that if any are still under copyright), you can do a search based on genre or whatever, then use Save to Disk to save the results of the search to a folder that you can pass along to whoever.
The whole purpose of calibre is to manage your books for you. While there are valid reasons for having multiple libraries (for example, roommates, married couples, families, etc. wanting to keep each ones books separate from the other's when sharing a computer, etc.), trying to presort books will limit calibre's ability to work for you.
I have two active libraries, and inactive one for future use, and plans for a fourth one. The main library is for my books; all my books, no matter what kind (except for the exceptions below). Any amount of separation I may want is as simple as perdorming a search or multilayered searches. I have to look in only one library to find what I want.
The second active library is for my comic books only. I put them in a separate library because I use different columns and I didn't want to junk up my main library screen with them.
The inactive library will house my sheet music and songbooks which will use another, completely different set of columns (I haven't worked out how to set that up yet). If I set up a fourth library, it will be for technical articles, possibly including tech magazines (I haven't worked out how to set that up either).