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travger · 04-18-2018, 12:36 PM

Other Formats: anything else than formats in Calibre - paper, pdf (if i have it, then it's usually somewhere in archives), audio.
In: for single stories that appear also in collection(s)
Pages
Words
Genre: I made it hierarchical, but now am having second thoughts. Science Fiction.Space Opera, Science Fiction.Military, Science Fiction.Romance gets too repetitive and cluttered. Much shorter to have Space Opera, Military, Romance, Thriller etc. and combine them as needed.
Subseries
Metadata check: Yes/No, No means that I checked and didn't find yet.
Original pubdate: I do like to know if i should forgive the outdated feel and old ideas of the story or marvel at author's ingenuity. Pubdate of THIS edition goes to Publication Date field. (Sometimes I have different editions of same thing)
Artist: Who painted cover and/or illustrations
Awards: this is hierarchical column. Nebula.2002.Novella.Nom, Hugo.2001.Novel.Win... In tag browser it's easy to see how many award-winning stories I have for each year. (Collections like "Nebula Showcase" get 1-2 entries for every story)
Contributors: authors in the anthology (Editor will be on the Author field); pseudonym or real name for the author (whichever they didn't use for this book and is not on Author field)
Notes: Miscellaneous info and notes that I don't want in comments. Links to various webpages go there too (FX Gutenberg or Smashwords page).
Quality: If I open a book and don't like the formatting, I'll put down 2 or 3 and it colors the title red. When next I feel like twiddling with a book, I'll find one of those and fix it to my liking.
Read: Yes / No (filled by Reading List plugin, also turns title green)
Read Date: I'm content to know only the last time I read a book
Source: also hierarchical - Baen.Free, Baen.Bundle, MR.jellby, MR.GrannyGrump...
Version: Sometimes is noted in the book

I try to unclutter my tags field and use it for things that are not really categories, like Non-Fiction, Novel, Novella, Short... Vampires, Angels, Time-travel... Historical used to be a tag, now it's a genre. Cookbook could be a genre, but I have only 1 or 2, so it's still a tag.

04-18-2018, 12:36 PM	#39
travger Evangelist Posts: 485 Karma: 270594 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: palm tx, Windows7, Galaxy A5	my columns Other Formats: anything else than formats in Calibre - paper, pdf (if i have it, then it's usually somewhere in archives), audio. In: for single stories that appear also in collection(s) Pages Words Genre: I made it hierarchical, but now am having second thoughts. Science Fiction.Space Opera, Science Fiction.Military, Science Fiction.Romance gets too repetitive and cluttered. Much shorter to have Space Opera, Military, Romance, Thriller etc. and combine them as needed. Subseries Metadata check: Yes/No, No means that I checked and didn't find yet. Original pubdate: I do like to know if i should forgive the outdated feel and old ideas of the story or marvel at author's ingenuity. Pubdate of THIS edition goes to Publication Date field. (Sometimes I have different editions of same thing) Artist: Who painted cover and/or illustrations Awards: this is hierarchical column. Nebula.2002.Novella.Nom, Hugo.2001.Novel.Win... In tag browser it's easy to see how many award-winning stories I have for each year. (Collections like "Nebula Showcase" get 1-2 entries for every story) Contributors: authors in the anthology (Editor will be on the Author field); pseudonym or real name for the author (whichever they didn't use for this book and is not on Author field) Notes: Miscellaneous info and notes that I don't want in comments. Links to various webpages go there too (FX Gutenberg or Smashwords page). Quality: If I open a book and don't like the formatting, I'll put down 2 or 3 and it colors the title red. When next I feel like twiddling with a book, I'll find one of those and fix it to my liking. Read: Yes / No (filled by Reading List plugin, also turns title green) Read Date: I'm content to know only the last time I read a book Source: also hierarchical - Baen.Free, Baen.Bundle, MR.jellby, MR.GrannyGrump... Version: Sometimes is noted in the book I try to unclutter my tags field and use it for things that are not really categories, like Non-Fiction, Novel, Novella, Short... Vampires, Angels, Time-travel... Historical used to be a tag, now it's a genre. Cookbook could be a genre, but I have only 1 or 2, so it's still a tag.