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Originally Posted by toddos
Also, disk space is cheap and books are small. You'd have to have a very large library of ebooks in order to use more than a couple of GB of storage space. There are more important things to worry about than wasting a couple of extra MB duplicating books.
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Well I just took a quick look at my library and I have a few more than I thought. I'm using up about 91 GB with just over 65,000 files. I know a lot of them are duplicates from moving between a few different computers over the years and I know there are a lot of them that I have in multiple formats.
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Originally Posted by vishcompany
I thought very similar, when I first tried calibre. I even dismissed it for a while.
But you can set calibre to load the files onto your reader exactly the way you want it to (folder structure), plus: if you ever tried a reader, which also presents you collections (equvalent to calibre tags), you probably will never want to miss this feature again. Folders are nice, but collections give you so many more possibilities.
I usually download a book onto the desktop, import it and delete it from desktop right away.
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All of my books are sorted right now into folders under the main catagorys of fiction and nonfiction. The fiction are the sorted by author then by series if applicable or just alphabetical by title. The nonfiction books are sorted by subject then alphabetical by title, with the exception of some of my technical books witch are sorted by publisher.
Most of my fiction books don't have any metadata in them as they are rtf, and txt files witch worked great with uBook. I also have a lot of .lit ones from when I was converting to that via the MS Office plugin before I found uBook.