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Originally Posted by laurla
You and Blossom are both right... I need to at least download them to my hard drive until I get around to getting them into Calibre.... I was so focused for several months on getting my initial organization that I didn't actually read much. Really - from at least 3 books a week to maybe one or two every couple of weeks  ... now I'm reading again and letting the organization slide. Oh, where is the balance???  |
I can do both.
For me instead of tags I use multiple libraries. One for books I bought, One for Kindle Freebies, One for Books to read, One for books I've reads and one for freebies from other places. I use the copy/move feature in Calibre alot to move my books between libraries. It works for me and I can have custom columns that relate to each library.
The books to read & The books I've read library would be duplicates from other libraries but this is where I do my conversion and clean up. All other have the original version only. Once I read a book it goes to my read library but the original version stays in what library it belongs such paid, Kindle freebie or Other Freebie library.
So it's like this
Originals:
- Paid Library (I kept track each format and what store it is from)
- Kindle Freebies (I use tags and custom column for books I am may be interested in)
- Other Freebies (Same as Kindle but for other stores I have a column to list the store it's from)
Final versions:
- 2B Read (I use columns to mark converted or clean up book done and load into Dropbox. I also use tags for genre. This is also where I fix the metadata and covers)
- Read Library (Books I've read, I use the Goodreads plugins to keep track of, date read, ratings, pages and word counts)
This works for me and takes little to no work to maintain.