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I apologize for my overly verbose and convoluted explanation of my discovery about Calibre. I guess my salient points are that:
1. By storing the library and all its associated files on an external hard drive, the size of the database is no longer an issue (Up to the size of the drive).
2. I can include audio books, video tutorails, music files, and even regular videos in the library, which will play direct from Calibre, by using 'empty books', and associating the proper file; giving me a complete catalog of all my stored media, regardless of format.
3. By creating 'Genre' libraries with specifically related customized columns, categories and tags, (ie for composers, & artists in music files; subject, producer, lecturer and length for tutorials; subject, author, department and school for specific articles in reseach journals or magazines; etc. it is easier to edit a large group of publications, (since I frequently download epub dumps and research journal dumps that may contain 60 to 100 publications at a time), including information relevant to that genre before moving the files to a Master database that contains all the custom categories, etc, from all the genre libraries, making it easier to create a virtual library that best serves the need based on genre.
4. By creating a 'Bookshelf' library on my laptop, and by 'moving' entries to it from the Master Library, without deleting them, I can access my most frequently used books, records, videos and tutorials from my laptop, whether my external hard drive is plugged in or not, and simply 'remove' (delete) the publication from the bookshelf without impacting the Master Library.
5. My laptop now only has 6GB in Calibre files, (instead of 60GB plus another 200GB+ for the addition media files now included in the Master Library on my external hd).
The ability to have a complete working library and catalog of all my ebooks, pdf's records, videos and research journals in one location without having to try to link them is a huge advantage for me. Aloha
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