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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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I'm going to have to repeat the advice about using Calibre. I didn't switch to using Calibre until I had around 800 ebooks and realized that I needed a tool to let me search by more than the title/author or depending on my memory. I no longer worry about the ebook organization on my computer -- they live in several Calibre libraries (fiction, computer, food and temp) and Calibre worries about the directory structure. I'm now somewhere in the 4000+ ebook range and the only issue I had recently was my cookbook collection causing issues on my Kobo Aura One -- 8Gb sounds like a lot until you start storing ebooks that average 140MB each which is when I split out my Calibre library into 4 libraries (temp is where ebooks I am editing are stored, the rest are pretty self-explanatory).
As usual when you have a single point of failure, backups become critical.
As for those who find your number of ebooks humourous, we all started with small collections not realizing that ebooks grow faster than kudzu.
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