Weekly Report:
No new purchases for me either. Just added one freebie.
Read:- Unwrapping Her Perfect Match (London Legends 3.5) by Kat Latham (B/4 stars)
- The Best Thing (Kent Brothers #3) by Jaci Burton (B-/3 stars)
- In the Clear (Winter Rescue #1) by Tamara Morgan (C-/2 stars)
- All I Want for Christmas by Kelly Jamieson (B-/3 stars)
- The Wedding Night by Jayne Ann Krentz (B+/4 stars)
- Too Much to Handle (Bluff City #1.5) by Nicole Helm (B/4 stars)
ETA: I did get the new Calibre library set up relatively quickly (took me about 3 hours most of that just double checking everything). So now I have 4 Calibre libraries: Calibre Library, Calibre Vault, Calibre Warehouse, and Calibre Undetermined.
I add almost all of the books* first to
Calibre Warehouse which includes a custom column for where the book was purchased (or a freebie from). Then the book is copied to either the main
Calibre Library (where most of books are kept and all included on my Sony even though I don’t use that device as much as I used to), the
Calibre Vault (books by authors I just don’t reread very often but I want to keep. It used to be only books I’ve read but now includes some still in my TBR), or the new
Calibre Undetermined which is where I keep the books by new-to-me authors. Once I’ve read a book here it will be moved to either the main library, the vault, or simply deleted.
*There are some books in my main library which are not in the Warehouse. These are books I’ve created myself from free website short stories or deleted scenes (such as all of Nalini Singh’s Phy/Changeling stuff, free on-line reads at Harlequin which are part of series, etc).
The Calibre Library and Calibre Vault both have custom columns for Grade (letter grade to go with the star rating), Date First Read, and Read (yes/no column but either blank or green checkmark for Yes). The Vault also has a custom column for Archive Date.
All in all, I think I'm done tweaking. I sure hope so anyway. Though I did plan all of the tags I wanted to use before I started using Calibre (I am super strict about them), I couldn't have planned the custom column stuff even if I'd wanted to as Calibre didn't have the feature back when I started using it. So my comfort level and organizational efforts have grown along with the program.