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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Challenging? Not really, I add all the tags/columns/info I like and calibre works later. Any clasification is subjective.
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Exactly. You need Calibre. You also need to go and manually add tags/columns/info.
DNSB, PeterT, eXistenZ, davidfor all offered great examples where their use of their library would require a system to include a book in multiple sets, without having to have more than one copy of a book. It is all perfectly correct, and books having correct metainformation, ability to have more than one tag for each field, should work in searches and database.
As it is now, we do not have ability to search like that on our devices, we also do not have books with correct metainformation. So though I agree it would be a great system if it worked and we had it, but we don't.
We have a device that requires to manage shelves one book at a time, takes long time processing new books, takes long time dealing with many shelves and with managing them. All of it would be unnecessary if you had access to file system, it would not suit all requests for categories and collections, but it is still personal, and you can arrange your books how you like them so you know where you'd find series, authors, you'd know how you arrange books with multiple authors, it is not different from having actual bookshelf at home, you have all your library at your fingertips, without extra wait. It is your library, so you know where you have all your stuff.
You can tell me that the structure of your preferred collection could not be satisfied with a library organized by folders, and that is fine, while programmers work to make it to your liking, you can still have well organized collection of books with a fraction of time if you had a browser.
And after all the great programming is done, foreign language books, which alphabet is not supported yet, would be still unavailable for any search.
Cant you see, file manager is a simple tool, that could work now, while all your requirements aren't met, even without having to have long processing time, without needing Calibre.
It is not perfect but as it is right now, it is still better what we have now.