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Pizza_Cant_Read · 12-13-2017, 08:03 AM

You can save all your books to your local hard drive and if you want, even convert them to epub in case you switch to a non-kindle ereader.

You can edit 'metadata' about the books in your library, allowing you to sort by series, ISBN, Amazon ID, or even tags such as "sci-fi" "fantasy" "mystery" "network security" "philosophy" "non-fiction" or whatever you you want.

It was a chore to create this meta-data, especially after I deleted my library once by accident but it is worth it. I have thousands of books and so collections are not very practical for me.

I use an mobile app called Calibre Companion which displays my library on a beautiful wooden bookshelf, allowing me to search or sort with any of the information it imported from calibre. I don't even need to organize my Kindle anymore, though for several dozen of my fiction series I did rewrite the titles to include series information "Shannara 01 - The Sword of Shannara". calibre provides what it calls 'plugboards' which allow you to automate this but I ended up doing it by hand because I was scared :P

It is just as powerful or more so than the software used in real life libraries to organize and search their collection. But also simple enough that anyone can use it for most basic tasks.

Anyhow, you should ask on the forum radamao linked to. Just wanted to vouch for calibre. It is the best thing since sliced bread, and my life would be hollow and empty without it.

12-13-2017, 08:03 AM	#6
Pizza_Cant_Read Sentient Sauce Posts: 461 Karma: 2519794 Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: China Device: 9th Gen Oasis	You can save all your books to your local hard drive and if you want, even convert them to epub in case you switch to a non-kindle ereader. You can edit 'metadata' about the books in your library, allowing you to sort by series, ISBN, Amazon ID, or even tags such as "sci-fi" "fantasy" "mystery" "network security" "philosophy" "non-fiction" or whatever you you want. It was a chore to create this meta-data, especially after I deleted my library once by accident but it is worth it. I have thousands of books and so collections are not very practical for me. I use an mobile app called Calibre Companion which displays my library on a beautiful wooden bookshelf, allowing me to search or sort with any of the information it imported from calibre. I don't even need to organize my Kindle anymore, though for several dozen of my fiction series I did rewrite the titles to include series information "Shannara 01 - The Sword of Shannara". calibre provides what it calls 'plugboards' which allow you to automate this but I ended up doing it by hand because I was scared :P It is just as powerful or more so than the software used in real life libraries to organize and search their collection. But also simple enough that anyone can use it for most basic tasks. Anyhow, you should ask on the forum radamao linked to. Just wanted to vouch for calibre. It is the best thing since sliced bread, and my life would be hollow and empty without it. Last edited by Pizza_Cant_Read; 12-13-2017 at 08:06 AM.