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Originally Posted by LadyKate
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.
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Yes, I use Calibre to convert (I prefer epub) and edit books, download covers or make one if a cover is unavailable and download metadata. I do not use the Calibre library; I use the "save to disc" feature and save the books in the sub-folders in a folder called EBOOKS. As I said, I arrange them by genre and author, for example Mystery, Sci Fi, Adventure, Humor, Classics, and so on. If I have a lot of books by the same author then I will make a separate sub-folder for that author.
I do not worry about authors who cross genres; for a writer like say Fredric Brown who wrote mysteries and sci-fi I will just keep all his books together. Books with multiple authors, like a collection of short stories? I would just put such a book into the appropriate genre and tag it "various authors." For writers whose books I am unfamiliar with I usually try and read a little of their writing first before I download them (as you know, many old books are terribly dated).
I load a collection of books onto an SD card from the computer; I have two ereaders, one uses a regular SD card and the other uses a micro SD card. I find a smaller capacity one (1 or 2 GB) more practical than a larger capacity one, unless you want to put comic books on it.
That is just what I find works best for me. I read about 2 books a week. I use a desktop for most things I do on the computer; I think I would find using a tablet difficult to do things as efficiently. I do have a tablet but only use it for looking at news sites; I find reading on an ereader much better than reading on a computer or tablet, no glare.