[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Shades67

Thank you. Very valid points Dennis. I remember seeing the magical number of 1250 books in my Library so not as many as most here. Guess I should leave more tags. What was frustrating me was later finding them in so many different tag places. I know this is the whole point.

Whether you should have more tags will depend on the size of your library, the sort of things you read, and how hard it is to identify a specific volume in a search.

My eBook library is much larger than yours, and I consequently need finer distinctions and more tags.

One thing I've been looking at in the background is solutions outside of Calibre for some kinds of searches. Calibre does a wonderful job of searching the book's metadata to zero in on volumes. What I'd like to do in many cases is search the book's content. This is not something Calibre can do, and it's made more complicated by the number of eBook formats out there. By preference, I get volumes in ePub format, and can convert using Calibre if needed to something else. (My old Palm TX PDA has a Mobipocket viewer, for instance, but Palm went away before ePub was designed. I've use Calibre on occasion to convert ePub->Mobi so I can read a volume on the TX.

I also have books in PDF, DjVu, HTML and a few other forms. There doesn't happen to be a generalized search utility that can open all of them and search the content, and I'm not sure individual specialized tools exist for all of them.

What I would probably need to do is use Calibre to convert to HTML, for which search tools exist, but that's only reasonable for a small fraction of the total number I have.

I read mostly simple stupid to calm my brain right now. I have interests in herbal treatments and art, self help for coping. Decor, mystery, adventure. I am not a very deep reader and with so many free books if it does not grab me in the first two chapters it is gone. Too many really good books out there. I am listening to A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and reading a mystery/action right now well not this minute. One in my studio listening and one reading in bed to go to sleep.

An old friend talked about a "comfortable old shoe" feel for books he re-read. I thought that was apt. I have a few volumes I will re-read for precisely that reason. I am already very familiar with the book, and may have read it many times, but it fits a particular mood and gets the nod. (Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is a particular example here.)

Today it is pouring down rain. Woo Hoo. So happy for the rain and also I spent a couple hours after dinner working in the yard instead of putting it off for today. I am hoping to get more meta data for my books in Calibre. I did manage to get all my books there. On my laptop. Need to figure how to save this externally just in case my computer goes for the big crash. I saw some thing about importing/exporting Need to explore more on this. I have the Calibre forum marked. I just need time to play more with it. A few must do projects then play time for me.

My master library lives in a Calibre Library directory on a hard drive. A copy lives on the USB thumb drive. I handle backup outside of Calibre itself. After a session of additions and library maintenance, I use an open source program called Free File Sync, and point it at the Calibre Library directory and the USB thumb drive. It analyzes both, the makes the necessary moves and changes to make the copy on the thumb drive a duplicate of what's on the hard drive.
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Dennis