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Originally Posted by Blue2u
LOL, good luck with your latest Calibre project!
I too am in the process of culling both my main library and my Mom's. Her KoboTouch is 'dying' and so I bought her a KPW but before I sync and give it to her I need to clean up both libraries. I'm only up to 'Br' in the whole library. Well, you guys know, it's a big task but a little at a time is the best way for me to do it.
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I found the great reconvert project was easiest a little at a time. I wish we'd had the Edit Book feature when I started it, but I am NOT going back through to perfect every book. I may fix books at a one-on-one basis as I read if the problems that still exist are ones which impair my reading. I am making myself wait to fix the paragraph indent issue with my Samhain books until I actually go to read them. But I refuse to go back through my entire library for cosmetic stuff that doesn't really affect the reading just because I've learned some new tricks this year.
The adding dates project I thought would go fast since I have kept a "journal" for many years. It lists the books I purchased as well as those read (along with what movies I saw in theatres). My problem is that back in 1989 (when I started the first one) I only wrote dumb things about my reading like "Started a book." "Finished book." What book!?!?!?! Who knows? I certainly didn't notate it anywhere I see
Thankfully around halfway through the year I wised up. But then I started just notating titles. And as anyone who reads a lot knows, many, many books over the years have the same title
Thankfully we now have the internet and FictionDB has been my friend the past week as I try to sort out which book. Most of the books I read back then I do not/will never own in digital. So it's a time consuming process to figure out which author it was by and if I have it or need to add it to my list of books I want to buy in digital if they are ever released. But it's fun too.
I know I eventually start listing the authors because that's the way I do so now. Sadly, I rarely wrote down my reactions to books until I got Calibre and decided to use ratings. But I am just leaving the rating blank if I don't have a clear memory of it and need to reread it (and to justify having repurchased it in digital
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I am just going to guess on the few books I have in digital I first read way back when. Like I know I read P&P and S&S the first time the summer between 7th and 8th grade when I was 12. So I'm just going to pick two random days in June.
Thankfully I also own a lot of books which I have yet to read at all, so this project doesn't encompass my entire library.
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Originally Posted by Blue2u
Also still tinkering with my new phone. Again, because I'm tech-challenged I'm doing this in bits and pieces to avoid frustration but so far I'm still loving it.
Reading wise I've been doing well, but I'm still struggling with the age-old problem of book 2 or 3 in a series coming out and I still haven't even read book 1. Sticking with my NY resolution of not buying whole series before I've read even the first in a series is proving to be a herculean task. So as a result my auto-buy authors-reading has suffered. I've simply got too many great books to read. Yes, a great problem to have.
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I have such admiration for you in this! I am so weak
I even have on my To Buy list notations like "not unless 1st is read" but it doesn't seem to stop me. In my defense I have at least been waiting for really good coupons. Unlike before where I would buy entire series at a mere 20% off. So I have gotten better. But I still buy.