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I think that most here use Calibre. I've been using it for a long time since I was using a Sony ebook reader and Calibre was originally written for that.
You can organize by a lot of different methods. There are multiple category fields. I use one category field for genre (SF, History, etc). One of the category fields allows multiple tags, so I use that for subgenres, i.e. History, Ancient, Greek. It's kind of ordered like the library without the numbers.
There is a lot of good advice in the thread, i.e. it's only as good as the data, so make sure the metadata is correct.
- Fix the names so that the same author is spelled the same way and the sort order is by last name
- Make sure that the series data is correct
- Keeping the read verse unread up to date
- Calibre supports to be read, I use that feature
- There is a reading list plugin for calibre which is pretty nice
- the DeDrm plug in is a must.
I usually leave books in date entered order, then use the filters (author, series, categories tags), but you can easily sort on any of the fields. I sort in different orders for different tasks. My normal work flow is,
-Add book (DeDrm plugin will remove DRM as it is added)
-download metadata and cover
-adjust Metadata to add series and category information and normalize other data (downloaded metadata is not always correct or in a normalized format)
-convert to epub or mobi as needed
You can either add small groups of books at a time, or load everything at once and use the read field to mark the books as you fix the metadata. I understand the small group of books at a time advice, but sometimes it helps to simply load everything up and play with it to get a feel for how you want to organize things. Definitely only do a download metadata on a few books at a time.
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