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Originally Posted by Yolina
Edit 2: I actually like it so much that I'm just going to use that for my paper books, they don't really need to go into Calibre as well...
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Glad I can finally contribute something of use to MR (other than my usual smart-alecky comments)!
I actually used this first as a catalog for my paper books when I was boxing a bunch of them up for storage. I gave each box a "bookshelf" so I could put my hands on any book quickly. And I created a shelf called "Free-Range" for books that were not put in storage and could be laying anywhere around the house. I tried several different apps but Book Catalogue seemed to be the most stable and had the best options and ease of use. And - bonus - I knew I'd never forget what it was called. I hated to put so many books away, but I needed the space and it was either the books or my children...
I haven't gotten as far as syncing my Calibre books with Goodreads; I just created a bookshelf in BC called "e-reader" (with a "z" before it so it would be at the bottom of my Goodreads bookshelf list) and I've added a number of books to that. I use it when I write a review of one of my e-books for Goodreads, in addition to whatever genre shelves I add it to. I have too many e-books to put them all into Goodreads; it would just muddy my shelves up with "crap" books that were free (or nearly so) but will probably get deleted after I read the first several terrible pages.
It would certainly simplify my life to have the same bookshelves on Goodreads that I have in Calibre (using metadata tags or custom fields), but I feel like it will be a pain in the rear so I haven't attempted it yet. (Mostly because in Calibre I have created a set of shelves for my husband's Kobo reader using a custom metadata field and I want to duplicate it exactly in the tags metadata to use with my Sony, and I haven't even figured that part out yet.)
Courtney