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thehawkman · 06-17-2013, 07:22 PM

I have a lot of books in various formats. Even though I can rename them using calibre and its ability to get information for them, that's only half the battle. I am looking for a system that would allow me to classify them. On a previous hard drive which crashed I used a folder hierarchy of the US Library of Congress I got from Wikipedia, with folders for each of its categories (A - Z) and with other folders below those for the subcategories, and so on, because that is what the publishers themselves use, so for example a book about banking would go under H - Social sciences - H*** Banking. Combined with the windows native search in windows vista and later, I could very easily find almost any book. The only problem was that in the structure in question, some categories were missing, and in some cases the books themselves did not have the LOC information printed inside, and the updates to the LOC classification were not free. Also it had an insanely large number of categories, which is the same problem I am having with the Dewey Decimal System: It has 10 major categories and a total of about 900 subcategories. That makes it hard to manage. The system I am looking for would have a smaller number of categories (somewhere like 20) so I don't have too spend time wondering "would this go under banking or finance?"/ "would this go under sports or fitness?", and also some of the major categories did not seem too intuitive ("Banking" under "H - Social Sciences"? Not exactly intuitive. Also it would be somewhat "official", just like the LOC is maintained. Anyone have such a classification system? I don't like the way calibre stores books (Seth Godin\Stop Stealing Dreams (7) for example), it doesn't use categories and I only use it for renaming using metadata downloaded from the internet and for conversion of epubs to PDF.

06-17-2013, 07:22 PM	#1
thehawkman Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 1234 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: none	Book classification system I have a lot of books in various formats. Even though I can rename them using calibre and its ability to get information for them, that's only half the battle. I am looking for a system that would allow me to classify them. On a previous hard drive which crashed I used a folder hierarchy of the US Library of Congress I got from Wikipedia, with folders for each of its categories (A - Z) and with other folders below those for the subcategories, and so on, because that is what the publishers themselves use, so for example a book about banking would go under H - Social sciences - H*** Banking. Combined with the windows native search in windows vista and later, I could very easily find almost any book. The only problem was that in the structure in question, some categories were missing, and in some cases the books themselves did not have the LOC information printed inside, and the updates to the LOC classification were not free. Also it had an insanely large number of categories, which is the same problem I am having with the Dewey Decimal System: It has 10 major categories and a total of about 900 subcategories. That makes it hard to manage. The system I am looking for would have a smaller number of categories (somewhere like 20) so I don't have too spend time wondering "would this go under banking or finance?"/ "would this go under sports or fitness?", and also some of the major categories did not seem too intuitive ("Banking" under "H - Social Sciences"? Not exactly intuitive. Also it would be somewhat "official", just like the LOC is maintained. Anyone have such a classification system? I don't like the way calibre stores books (Seth Godin\Stop Stealing Dreams (7) for example), it doesn't use categories and I only use it for renaming using metadata downloaded from the internet and for conversion of epubs to PDF.