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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
I don't tag anything for the sake of browsing my collection, I just create the folder structure: eBooks > Genres > Authors.
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Right now, I'm in the middle of an ebook about an interstellar ambulance service--they show up after battles or disasters (sometimes not quite after) and help the survivors, providing medical care and transportation to safer areas.
Genre: Science fiction.
The main characters are named Kirk and Spock. (It's an alternate universe story.)
Genre: Fanfic/Star Trek
I'd have to decide which category to place it in. (Right now, I'm using a Sony 505 without PRS+ and I don't deal with the software for tags.)
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Can't really think of anything which might make browsing a large collection any easier than that. Of course I only know the Sony readers and use PRS+, so I've no idea how easy it is to do on other readers.
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What would make browsing a large collection easier is software designed for a library.
Gutenberg has "bookshelves," and the same book can appear on several shelves. Software that sorted by filesize or, better, word count would be useful when I want something short enough to read on my lunch hour. Other sorting or filtering methods I'd love to see:
- Multi-genre tags, so books would show up under *each* genre, rather than having to be put in a folder of only one.
- Sort by date uploaded (the Sony does this)
- Sort by most-recently-opened (the PEZ does this)
- Publisher and/or site purchased/received from
- Tag for fiction/nonfic
- Sorting out books/blog feeds/journal articles/selfmade docs (as opposed to selfmade books).
- Text vs scan vs picture-based (comics, scanned PDFS)
- Keyword search/sort for nonfiction, esp. textbooks
I can think of plenty of features for library software that no ereader company seems interested in developing.
I think I'd buy an iPad just for library use, if someone made a good app with all those features. (And it read multiple ebook types. I'm not interested in converting my library of journal articles to ePub.)