Advice on using Calibre as a main library
I have had Calibre on my Mac for quite a while, but only used it for conversion and not really used it for book organisation. At the moment I have a couple of Kindles, one a Paperwhite and an large iPad Air. Also started to play around with Kobo's a bit. The iPad to me is useless as a fiction book reader but fantastic for technical books. I have a habit of obtaining a PDF for every thing I buy as well as other PDF books. The Kindle etc. comes into it's own with what I call leisure reading. So the question is how to organise things as what I have at the moment lacks any structure. I keep the technical stuff for the iPad in iBooks and the fiction etc in the Kindle environment. I thought of using Calibre to organise the whole lot. Would this be a good plan. If I do go this route should I keep 2 totally separate libraries in Calibre, one for fiction the other the technical stuff. Or just have one big library. I was starting to look at the idea of one big library and use two virtual libraries. One called technical the other something like non-tech. When I created a test library in Calibre and made a virtual library which listed all books with a tag technical this seemed ok. But I couldn't seem to find a way to do the opposite and make a virtual library that listed anything that didnt have a technical tag on it. Is it possible to do this.
Any advice appreciated.
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