[fcoulter]

I had an epiphany about an hour ago. I'm a graduate student, and I've been collecting PDF files of scholarly articles from many of my various classes. They've ended up scattered among various computers and various folders, and are impossible to find when I need them again a year or two after last I've seen them.

I have no idea how I'm going to be able to catalog all of my old articles since I don't know where most of them have gone, but suddenly realized that using Calibre to store all of the new articles would be a great idea, especially since it appears that I can maintain several libraries on my computer.

My thought is that I would set up a separate library for the scholarly articles. Each article would be a separate book, with authors, etc. The description (free form text field) would be a copy of the abstract. I'm sure I can store all the information needed for APA citations within calibre, using custom fields if neccessary. I could tag the article with the class that referred to it, as well as any times I've used it as a source in one of my own articles.

I wouldn't bother converting any of the documents to another format. Although I like to read on my Kindle, Calibre's conversion from PDF isn't very good, and Kindles really don't like tables, even if converted properly.

So the question is -- has anyone already done this? Do they have any tips or suggestions?