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"My advice (unasked for I know) would be to use your current folder system as you are happy with it, but leave the books in calibre at the same time. You will thank yourself one of these days and disk space is cheap."
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Sometimes unsolicted advice is the junk mail of life but I appreciate yours because I was actually asking and you were helpful. My library has many many work related files (300gigs), so having 2 sets is kind of taking up a lot of room, but I may just do that. thanks for the reply
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"You have "cower flow" browsing, using covers automatically downloaded from the net. It is like browsing covers in a shop or library."
I liked this but tried it and it felt like my library is just way too big for it to work right, maybe if I use a visual filter to filter out work stuff this would be cool.
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"You can use "export to directory" function and have Calibre to create almost any imaginable file and directory structure. You can use "plugboards" to perform many things on exported books.
When you change author name in Calibre it adjusts its folders and metadata. In file structure you have to do all that change manually."
"You can select any number of books using various criteria and have Calibre to make "Catalog" of those books. Catalog is a very nice e-book listing authors, titles, series, tags, covers, metadata, all very nicely hyperlinked against each other. You load those books to your e-book reader and then load the catalog, so you have a VERY nice catalog of your books available on your device."
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First sounds very interesting, I'll look into it. Second, I'm trying to think of a time I've needed meta-data of a book when searching books (search title then read). Third, sounds great but I can't really add those catalogs to the Kindle Touch if what I read about it was correct (still a tempting idea just to have collections for when that is supported). Maybe my library is too big to utilize Calibre right, or maybe that's the precise reason I need to use it. Thanks for the responses
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