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Originally Posted by ChipAHoy
I am on a Macbook. I went crazy with ebooks and now have about 50. Using apps like Calibre, Kindle for Mac, Kobo reader, etc. I have ebook files all over the place. Does anyone have their ebook organization on their computer set-up in a consistent and well-structured manner? I would like to try to organize all of mine and get ride of the many duplicate and unnecessary files.
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When I started out I had an eBooks folder on my computer with 26 "letter" folders insider that and then author folders Last Name, First Name inside those. It worked pretty well for quite a while, but eventually I found dumping everything in Calibre and using that as my book repository worked better for me. Being able to look not just by author, but by title, series and any tags I've chosen to set (all of my tags are genres) and have an easy read y/n column plus an approximate word count all together makes my library work well for me using Calibre. Having conversion and editing tools right there in the same software package is another bonus.
You're at a good place to start a Calibre library and lay down some ground rules for yourself on how you want to do things before your library grows larger and it takes you days instead of a few hours to get tags and series info in place (if you want them that is).