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Originally Posted by Blue2u
I think I'm losing control over my library. I use Calibre so that's helped me so much already. I currently have 3 libraries, 1 for my main library [500+], 1 for freebies [1000+], and I manage one for my Mom's Kobo. I recently added a 4th library for books I know I won't read again, but want to keep for reference so I don't mistakenly buy/download those again.
How do you guys manage your libraries? How do you sort/keep your current and past books?
[and this is thread-related because it's this forums' fault that I have so many books to keep track of!  ] |
I only keep track of two - freebies and "books" (which has some freebies in it). I send all freebies to a particular Kindle and just copy them into the freebie calibre library now and then (it doesn't matter that they have drm, as far as managing them; in fact, trying a conversion to mobi on the drm'd ones will tell you which ones are naturally drm-free, if you actually care).
I use tags in both to track those I've read, genre, "must-read authors", "paid", etc (I have a tag for "freebie", as well -- I can combine the two libraries after making sure that freebie tag is on all the books in the "freebie" library - that sticks the tag on any that are also in "books"; I export all the freebie books then to a single subdirectory (in case any were hiding in books that were not in "freebies") and then delete the freebies from the main library (this gets rid of the pesky duplicates between the two; it's easier to search for a book if you don't do this step, so sometimes I don't delete the freebies from the main library). Then import that saved batch of books back to freebies again (duplicates get ignored on import, so just let it run overnight and all your free books are then in that secondary library).
Then, I cheat, actually - I generate a catalog of the books to a csv file and search it in excel (it's faster than using calibre on very large libraries, plus I can combine the csv from the two libraries together and search at the same time).