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Originally Posted by SAFisher
Maybe, but I used PCs under Windows more than 27 years and now I enjoy iMac.
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Fine, but that has nothing to do with the original question, which was about he method you use to organize your ebooks, not what kind of computer you store them on.
The point is that Calibre has flexibility you're not going to get by browsing the files on your hard drive.
Case in point: Suppose you have your ebooks in a two-level folder structure, the top level for author and the second level for title. Now suppose you want to read a particular book but you can't remember who wrote it, but you do remember the title. If you have your books as files on your hard drive, you would have to browse through multiple author folders until you found it, whereas in Calibre you just sort on the Title field and scroll down alphabetically. Much easier.
Or suppose you want to read a particular book, and you don't remember the author or the title but you remember it had dinosaurs in it. If you've tagged it with "Dinosaur" in Cailbre, you simply use the tag browser to show you all the dinosaur books, then scan the shorter list until you find the right book. Try doing that in a hierarchical folder structure.
But you know what? You may not need that flexibility. If so, that's fine. Calibre isn't the One True Way to organize your books. With the flexibility of Calibre comes extra complexity and a change to your work flow, and it may not be worth the tradeoff. For instance, I would never use Calibre to organize a library of only 3 books. If you prefer to sacrifice the flexibility of Calibre for the ability to keep your ebooks in your own folder structure, there's nothing wrong with that.