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Originally Posted by william z
I have no idea why organizing ebooks should be a problem. It is simple to put files in a folder and then in sub-folders. I have thousands of books in a file called "EBOOKS", in it are sub folders with books arranged by author or genre. It takes up 4.35 GB, which may sound like a lot but since my computer has 1TB of storage and two external hard drives with another 1.5 TB it is not much. Even so, if you don't have room on your hard drive you can buy a memory card for a few dollars and put your books on there.
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You say by author or genre. What do you do with authors who cross genres? or a book that crosses genres? or books with multiple authors?
I have to wonder, have you ever tried Calibre?
The ability to add tags, download metadata from various sources and have the links in the book details. If you have collected free or nearly free books you probably have some authors whose work you are not familiar with. Think how easy it is to go into Calibre and browse your collection by the tags you have added, by the ratings from the sites you chose for metadata, or by series.
I admit that like many I was stuck on the file structure thing but now I much prefer working within Calibre's structure. I still save my books to a directory to put on my sd card in an author/series based structure. That's just the way I like to find things on my tablet and it is so easy to do this using Calibre's save to disk feature.