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Originally Posted by Azkahuna
Thanks again for your feedback, especially BetteRed and Speakingtohe. You've given me a couple of suggestions worth trying. I guess I'm just difficult to please. When I totaled all my books and magazine issues in all my libraries, it is actually a little past 9000 which in total takes up just over 60gigs of harddrive space, currently only 20 gig is actually on my internal hd, as the other libraries which I don't use as often, are stored on an external hd and accessed by simply switching libraries when it is plugged into my usb port. Having one huge library means I have to commit to either my internal or external hd, which I had hoped to avoid. I had also hoped to avoid the time consuming and tedious task of having to go through and type in a tag for every new entry right off the bat with a genre, rather than just dumping them into the appropriate library, and deaing with more specific tag(s) later. My scientific publications and magazine articles already have tags for article topics and authors. Anyway, I can see my options are limited, but I really appreciate some of the suggestions, especially about creating a windows library or a 'temporary library' until I can get the time to give new books an appropriate genre for a virtual library, and/or other more detailed tags. I'll let you know how it turns out. Mahalo & Aloha
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60 gig seems pretty big for 9000 books. But it is not a lot in terms of disk space,
I would maybe suggest that you put all of your books in one library on your external and keep the libraries you have on your hard drive as is. Then if you want to locate a book not in your commonly used librararies you just have to plug in your external which you must have to do now anyway.
Making two libraries, one external and one internal is another approach, that way if you are looking for a book there would be only one switch.
It really is simple to tag the books with each library name as you combine them. And that way if you decide to split them again, they are already grouped by a ttag (I recommend a seperate custom column, because mistagged items in tags can cause confusion. ) and it doesn't have to be genre. Call it library, and tag fiction as fiction etc.
For myself a single library is the way to go. I Use my library to track books that I have read or really really want to read etc. and connecting to several libraries to update these things seems painful as I use the readers in this process. Would be easier if I just made notes, but can't seem to do that
Anyway it will come to you the best solution for your needs
Helen