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Originally Posted by Bksfinest

This seems like a decent place for me to start. I'm a minimalist, a minimalist with a large library, which is competing. I believe it is best to concentrate on one book at a time and not the flashy features. However, Calibre creates duplicates without deleting the original.

You can do what you want with the originals. Leave them as a back up or delete them. Calibre will not delete them because it doesn't want to be responsible for eliminating a book if the Add books process fails for some reason.

Originally Posted by Bksfinest

I want to create a solution for this I found CC and downloaded both FB and Moon Readers.

I think you have found the best way to keep your books sorted on your device. I use Calibre Companion and Moonreader+ too. I have around 10,000 books but manage my tags closely and have only about 240 tags. Using tags is better than a dedicated folder structure because most all books could easily be in more than one folder because multiple genres would apply. This would require duplicate copies of the book in many folders. Tracking such a system is much more work in the long run.

Originally Posted by Bksfinest

But genre folders work for me, because I read by mood or requirement not author.

Your statement above is exactly why you should go to a tag system. Using Calibre Companion it is much easier to search for a particular genre, mood or requirement. Forget how the folders or files are formatted since there is no longer any need to search through any folders.

Originally Posted by Adoby

I do the same, and I don't use calibre to find what to read. Instead I use the browsing capabilities in Mantano Premium. And I have all my (good) books ready to read on my Xoom. Currently about 3500 books in about 8GB.

I essentially do the same. I have around 2200 books on my tablet out of a larger library. The difference for me is I use the Calibre Companion app to manage the books on my device and launch my books for reading from this app.

Originally Posted by Adoby

Mantano also allows you to easily browse the books using the tags, titles, series, author and so on. Almost as good as calibre itself.

If you used Calibre Companion then the searches / browsing feature would be as good as calibre itself. This is due to the same searches and metadata that are used in calibre can be used in Calibre Companion.

Originally Posted by Adoby

It all works fine for me, but it is not perfect. Any changes to errors in metadata has to be fixed in calibre, and the book has to be manually reimported to Mantano after the next sync.

One advantage of Calibre Companion is no more re-importation of books.

A second advantage of CC is the ability to easily sync the metadata on your tablet with the updated metadata in calibre. This only requires you to do a wireless connection to calibre of your tablet as a device. Wait the minute or three for calibre to sync the metadata and then disconnect. All of your metadata for your book entries in Calibre Companion on your device will now match exactly the metadata you have set in Calibre.

Originally Posted by Adoby

Also it would have been nice to be able to automatically map tags to collections in Mantano using some form of logic:

Historical Crime = Fiction and (Crime or Sleuth or Detective or Police or "private investigator") and (Historic or Historical) and not Fantasy

I don't have an exact solution for this, but I do download all of my tags for calibre from Goodreads using the goodreads metadata source plugin. This allows me to map the incoming tags. I have Historical Crime set to come in as Crime and Historical Fiction. But you can change the mapping of incoming genres to whatever suits you. My Goodreads tag mapping can be found here.