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Originally Posted by Shades67
Thank you. If you come up with some thing let me know. It is hard to scroll through so many books and then I can not remember which each book relates to. Gives real meaning to you can not judge a book by it's cover.
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Look into Calibre. Calibre is an open source application designed to create and manage an eBook library. Calibre's author, Kovid Goyal, is an MR member, and Calibre's support forum is on MR.
Calibre uses metadata to organize the collection. The default display is a grid, with each row a book. It displays author name, title, date added to the library, file size, tags, series, and publisher. Calibre can go on line to Google, Amazon and other sources to get metadata and fill in the blanks.
Tags are the critical part, and you can use them to classify eBooks by type, with a search function to display all eBooks of that type. If you have books that are part of a series, you can add a series title, and which number in the series the book is.
Calibre assumes you will download eBooks to the machine it runs on, and use it to add them to your device. I run Calibre, connect my tablet via a USB cable, and tell it to connect to the device. It connects to the device, and builds a list of books already on device from metadata it stores. Books already on device shows as checks in a new column in the Calibre display. I can select books that aren't currently on device I might like to read on it, and tell Calibre to transfer them to the device. Once there, I can have FBReader rescan to build the list it uses, and the new books will show up in FBReader.
See
http://calibre-ebook.com for downloads and documentation.
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Dennis