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Originally Posted by DrNefario
1. It wouldn't help with my paper books.
2. It would be a lot of work.
3. I hardly ever switch on my Calibre machine. Why on earth would I want to do all that work to make my database less accessible?
4. I could already add a "don't want to read column" to my spreadsheet - in fact I have done - the problem is that I often don't know what to put in it.
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I use Calibre Portable and keep it on an external HD. It's easier to back up that way because I can just copy it to my backup HD, and I never have to worry about what machine I'm using.
For me, I made a Reading Status column that is a dropdown, and have just a few options: Unread, Read Once, Reread, Uninterested. Then I put what I've actually done with the books. It helps to have just a few options for sorting, and those cover almost everything that can be done with books.
For physical books, I use Libib.com to keep a list for household inventory uses, and if I want to read one of them I just pick it off the shelf. There's no need to really keep track of them like there is for ebooks, since I can see all my pbooks quickly.