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Hi all,
Just an update on my exploration of Total Commander's File Comment feature to organise my To-Read Books. It went well. It's a breeze, fun even, to add a priority tag to a ebook, watch it sort itself within the directory, then move up the directory tree, use the branch-view to 'collapse' the sub-directories to see how it fits into the overall booklist and adjust the reading order along the way.
For syncing, TC will sync the file comments along with the files, when moving/copying files across to an external memory card/devices mounted to the PC. However, this is useful only if the external device supports it, which is effectively another Windows system running TC. Total Commander is available on Android but only has basic file functions that doesn't include the legacy File Comment feature. For viewing on non-Windows reading devices, I export my sorted booklist and book comments to a file, which turned out to be trivial with TC. Mark the files, select "Mark->copy to clipboard with all Details" to copy the filelist to the clipboard, then paste it into a text file!
While this list is fine for viewing, launching the ebook from there is better. I'm partially successful in converting it into a HTML file for launching local ebooks on my reading devices. The ebook will launch, or not, depending on how the device browser handles local file references. This is somewhat fiddly. A more reliable, less universal approach is to import the list into bookmarks of file managers (or Calibre campanion?) on my reading devices. I found that Total Commander on Android (free; not related to me in any way) conveniently uses a text based XML file to store its bookmarks and was successful converting my booklist into a TC bookmark file. So on Android devices, I'm also using TC to view my converted To-Read Booklist and to launch the ebooks, until there is something better.
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