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guymcd · 09-29-2014, 11:21 PM

Thanks for the info and I hate to sound non-receptive but how does locating a book in Calibre Companion bypass the need to locate that same book in the reader? This wouldn't be such a big deal but every reader/app I have found starts from a flat file structure and then allows you to manually build collections/catalogs/lists which is a deal breaker when dealing with 4000+ books at the start. I believe this why Calibre exists in the first place and is exactly why I use it.

So rephrasing the question; How would one go about setting up an ebook library on a reader/app containing 4000+(or even 500+) books that is per-sorted into collections/catalogs/lists (whatever) that conquer the flat file structure native to all of these devices?

The goal is to hand the device to someone who has no desire to learn new technology. Further, if you handed me a device with that many books and told me the only way to manage it was to manually create collections I would drop it in the trashcan.

I see 2 possible solutions so far, the first to figure out how to generate collections with the new Kindle format and the second is to find a reader that builds its library based on a file structure and maintains the relationships. Nothing will be perfect but I see collections for authors A-Z, a couple of genres, and maybe by series. Just enough to make navigation more manageable.

09-29-2014, 11:21 PM	#5
guymcd Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: Tablet	Thanks for the info and I hate to sound non-receptive but how does locating a book in Calibre Companion bypass the need to locate that same book in the reader? This wouldn't be such a big deal but every reader/app I have found starts from a flat file structure and then allows you to manually build collections/catalogs/lists which is a deal breaker when dealing with 4000+ books at the start. I believe this why Calibre exists in the first place and is exactly why I use it. So rephrasing the question; How would one go about setting up an ebook library on a reader/app containing 4000+(or even 500+) books that is per-sorted into collections/catalogs/lists (whatever) that conquer the flat file structure native to all of these devices? The goal is to hand the device to someone who has no desire to learn new technology. Further, if you handed me a device with that many books and told me the only way to manage it was to manually create collections I would drop it in the trashcan. I see 2 possible solutions so far, the first to figure out how to generate collections with the new Kindle format and the second is to find a reader that builds its library based on a file structure and maintains the relationships. Nothing will be perfect but I see collections for authors A-Z, a couple of genres, and maybe by series. Just enough to make navigation more manageable.