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secretclean · 02-06-2018, 11:41 PM

Hello everyone. Over the past 8 years I've managed to collect over 150,000 non-fiction books, and I'd finally like to sort them all out.

It's incredibly daunting to click on root on my hard drive and see 21,947 folders and files strewn about with no universal naming structure. Some are in folders with "[author] title (file type) {uploader tag}", others are "title - genre (publisher, date)" and yet others are "title - author - file type" and aren't in folders at all. About half of my 150k books are in logical order thanks to whomever did all the work in compiling them before me, but I never took the time to merge between collections and now have a massive blob of nonsense.

My ideal file structure is to have them all sorted by genre (medical, history, art, etc.), then by subgenre if applicable (would probably have to manually sort that), then a simple "Title - Author (date)" for the file, no individual folders for each file. Though I've tried with calibre in the past, it never worked out well. Seems like there's always something missing in the metadata. Maybe I'm just too new and need guidance in using it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

02-06-2018, 11:41 PM	#1
secretclean Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2018 Device: none	Need help creating file structure hierarchy for 150k books Hello everyone. Over the past 8 years I've managed to collect over 150,000 non-fiction books, and I'd finally like to sort them all out. It's incredibly daunting to click on root on my hard drive and see 21,947 folders and files strewn about with no universal naming structure. Some are in folders with "[author] title (file type) {uploader tag}", others are "title - genre (publisher, date)" and yet others are "title - author - file type" and aren't in folders at all. About half of my 150k books are in logical order thanks to whomever did all the work in compiling them before me, but I never took the time to merge between collections and now have a massive blob of nonsense. My ideal file structure is to have them all sorted by genre (medical, history, art, etc.), then by subgenre if applicable (would probably have to manually sort that), then a simple "Title - Author (date)" for the file, no individual folders for each file. Though I've tried with calibre in the past, it never worked out well. Seems like there's always something missing in the metadata. Maybe I'm just too new and need guidance in using it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.