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Originally Posted by Lordblacknail
Here's the problem with worldwalker's explanation as to why Calibre is good for you, shut up and take the medicine. Not all of us has 303 books, one copy, all in the same format, of each book. I have over 300K eBooks, in a variety of formats, pretty much every format that an eBook was ever released in. I use Calibre to convert one eBook format to another eBook format. I keep all of my books in a file called Book Pool, in folders by authors name, first name first. I put any book that I get, in any format, written by Larry Niven in the Larry Niven folder. If it is written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, I still put it in The Larry Niven folder, because I don't read Pournelle. I might have fifty copies of a book like Storm Front by Jim Butcher in the Jim Butcher folder, and if I want to read it and put it on my Kindle, I will find, usually the latest copy, convert it, and put it on my Kindle. If it has artifacts, I will try another copy to put on my Kindle. I have not looked at every book in my book pool folder, I have no idea which ones in there are 5.0v and which aren't. I don't ever expect to know unless I want to read it. I realize my situation is not like most people, who have a few hundred books and it isn't a issue for them to review them and keep them in a Calibre library. But it doesn't work for me.
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So you keep books in author folders and calibre keeps them in the same folders, further subdivided into unique book folders. I fail to see what harm that would cause...
FWIW I have a couple thousand ebooks, in AZW3, MOBI, EPUB, and PDF formats. I love having them organized by unique book.
I have also never had multiple copies of books from different sources some of which have horrible artifacts -- I only need one copy per format per book.
As ever,
Your Mileage May Vary remains the only true rule. I figured Worldwalker's explanation was interesting enough to deserve mention, and apologize if I inadvertently implied that it is the only valid opinion.