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Originally Posted by fidvo
One idea to cut down on the work, if you're willing to make a few adjustments to how you do things, is to zip up batches of photos into .cbz files and store those in Calibre instead of the individual images.
For instance, say you have a set of photos taken from your last vacation. Zip all the files from the vacation and add it to Calibre, and tag it however you want. The individual images from that collection would likely all have the same tags anyway.
When you add a .cbz file to Calibre, I believe it automatically sets the first image as the cover. You can view the .cbz file natively in Calibre or with your favorite comic book reader. Yes, I know it's not technically a comic book, but the reader won't care.
At the very least, I would recommend doing this for all your images that are easily grouped into collections like this. For the rest, there's not much you can do but what Kovid said above. But hopefully this will cut down on the work you have to do, as well as storage space from duplicated images.
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I keep 'photo albums' cbz's in a separate physical library with its own set of custom columns. I view them with the Honeyview comic book reader.
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