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Originally Posted by Jo69
Are we talking 2 or 3 separate calibre programs here then?
I have a lot of books saved in my calibre library that I may never want to read. But need to see what I have as occasionally I have bought a book twice. 
Is the TBR list that everyone's mentioning on the boards just a yes/no column?
Or something different? |
For my use, I've added multiple libraries to one calibre instance. Click on the Library icon in the toolbar and then Switch/Create Library. For new ebooks, there is a temp library where the books are imported into calibre. The first step after the import is to run the books though Sigil or calibre's editor -- for epub2 files, I prefer Sigil to run FlightCrew and epubcheck, for epub3 files either Sigil or the calibre editor to run epubcheck. After any errors are corrected, covers and metadata are edited, series information added as needed, etc. Once these steps are done the book is moved to the appropriate library (cooking, computer, spouse or the main library). There are other special purpose libraries as well -- my KA1 has it's own library since it lacks the storage to hold a copy of all my ebooks so when I send a book to the KA1, it is also copied to the KA1 library.
I use the Duplicate Books plugin to check for duplicates either in a library or between two libraries as they have crept in a couple of times. On a somewhat regular basis, I export CSV catalogs of the various libraries (why this function lives under Convert Books is a question to which I'm not sure I want the answer
) and then merge them in Excel. Before a purchase, I search the combined catalog which takes just a second or two.
My TBR list is generated from a column listing the book as unread, read, unfinished or junk (a book which was started but will never be finished). Sadly, my TBR is pretty minuscule unless I get into re-reading a long series when it may grow to 20-30 books.