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Old 04-01-2012, 02:48 AM   #18
DoctorOhh
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I like dividing my books by genre. That is the way I shelve books on my Nook.
That's the way I sort books in my collections on my Sony too.

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I usually don't decide to read a book based soley on the author. If I am in the mood for a horror story, I go right to my horror section. If I want a book by, say, James Herriot, I know that he is in my "Animals Pets" section. I can't think of a single time that I ever thought, "I want to read *anything* by a [specific author] where I didn't know what genre the author was in.
Being able to pick by genre is one of calibre's strengths. Trying to manage genre and series in calibre by using different libraries would be insane.

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Reading the posts on here, I have seen where people say that 10,000 books is nothing. If that was all in one library, my gosh, it would take 5 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.
Fretting about scrolling through the entire library only points out that you still have a lot of calibre exploring and learning to do. 100, 1,000 or 10,000 books in the library makes little difference, a click of a tag will show you the genre you want. Or you can click on two tags to narrow the search further.

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I will try using it the way you mentioned for certain books. For instance, instead of having a whole "biography" section, I can put it under non-fiction and then tag it "biography". That will work.
Or you can have one library and tag the book non-fiction and biography.

Good Luck.
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