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Originally Posted by dickloraine
Why would you do this, if you have calibre? There you can use tags, which are superior to any folder structure. If you use folders, you have to put books under one and only one label. And if you - some time in the future - wish to change it, it will be very difficult.
You are free to use as few or as many tags as you like. So you can go for the system you have in mind, but you would also be able to make something like a subject catalog.
You could also use custom columns, so you use one column for something like the Dewey System and another one for more private tags and another one for subjects.
Folders are very simplistic. Calibre is more of a database, with the added comfort to be tailored to books.
And if you need it on devices where calibre doesn't work, you can make catalogues.
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Actually tags suck. Gmail makes a similar claim, and a lot of people dislike it for that very reason. And I am not interested in a custom database. A folder hierarchy is much better. Why enter tags for files, when I can rename them using Calibre and its metadata downloader and then drag and drop using Windows Explorer to one of the already predefined foldesr for the appropriate category.
I name my books “author-title” and then put each of them in a folder with the same name. I can do this using calibre with a “save to disk” template, after I’ve downloaded the metadata. This allows me to know how much space each book and my library takes on the hard drive, and besides, by storing each of it in a separate folder, I can store other things like videos or code samples with the book. I can’t do that within Calibre.
http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-0-136...09-edition.php
I will use this. Found it using that Wiki page. Thank you. 50 Top categories is very manageable, it takes the indecision out of sorting and it is updated periodically, so it is just perfect.