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Originally Posted by bounce
@speakingtohe Thanks for the detailed response and you've convinced me to give it ago with some of my collection. I think you misread where I wrote it's 250 gb not 25 gb though 
@betterred kiwidude plug-ins I'll look into those
@unbogling that is a massive post, bookmarked and I'll dig into it later for sure.
I guess my situation is that I have a large list (48pages) in simplenote of books prioritized by what I want to read next and if it's not high priority it's sorted by subject. From here, I just use "everything" to quickly search that next book on Win or spotlight on Mac, so it hardly matters I have a sorted file system or proprietary software. I know there are times when an author pens under different genres like Iain Banks, but I don't know that use case is gonna come up much for me. I basically know what I want to read and already spend practically no time just going to the next book in my list which I prefer over situation where i'm herding. I know Calibre is far more than this though and curious to see what I can do with it, so I will try it out!
One thing I'd like other than my sequential list is someway to inject some serendipity into what I read next and maybe I can figure out a way to do that with Calibre or a plug-in. Thanks for the opinions so far |
Eek 250 GB. Still not a lot in todays storage standards IMO.
There is a random book selector function in calibre, although I have never used it. 2/3 of the books I read are series and I would just as soon read them sequentially although I rarely read two in a row.
My serendipity (if I am understanding correctly) is by having the books in collections by series or authors on my readers and picking a collection kind of randomly (I may start at the beginning or the end or somewhere in between and pick a collection to open) As I try to have books on my readers that I want to read, 9/10 times I will just start the top book although occasionally I am in a more specific mood for or against.
Helen