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Originally Posted by fglaysher
The Calibre softeware has the same limitation. I installed and then deleted it since I discovered I'd have to do all the same sorting and then end up with huge single file on Calibre with all the books dumped into it.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Unless you are using an older version of calibre. The newest version organizes the books in folders by author then by book name.
However, the power or organization is not in the folder system... it is in the metadata. You can apply "Series" and "Tags" to each book. Once you have done this you can navigate the books using the Tags browser. Also, Authors and Publishers are automatically set up as "Tags" too. When you use "send to device" your series and tags will become collections on your Sony reader.
Yes, it will take quite a while to do this. You can make it faster by importing books by your category folders one at a time. Then do a bulk metadata edit and apply the tag(s) to them all at once.
You will also find that tags are more flexible than folders. Folders fit you into a set taxonomy. So, you could do genres which precludes you from knowing if they are read or unread or what publisher they came from. With tags you can tell me all of the Mystery books you have that were published by McMillion. Also, some books aren't so neet. For example, the Daniel Olivaw books by Asimov to me are both Sci-Fi and Mystery.
You could also have a tag "read". Now, you list all your Mysteries for example but you only want to see those not "read". So, you can set the "read" tag with the "negative" and it will show you all the books with the tag "mystery" that is NOT tagged "read". Cool eh?
Once you have all this done you can quick find stuff using the tag browser or just basic searches in the search bar.
BOb