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Hawkeye666+ · 09-15-2018, 04:26 PM

Thanks for the input. I can't use just one library because there are too many Ebooks involved. I prefer to hold the number under 40,000 per library to prevent processing impact.

Many times deciding what genre to use is pure guesswork, and some authors write in multiple genres. I spend too much time deciding where a book should go once I decide I wish to keep it and rearranging and expanding genre libraries when necessary is not a trivial task.

It seems to me that using tags (which is what all virtual libraries do anyway) would allow any genre to be accessed and isolated. The time saved in allocating new books and any resizing of libraries should be worthwhile but I don't want to do this if the result is purely cosmetic and there is no gain in efficiency.

I am looking for anything that would negatively impact keeping my collection in multiple libraries by author name rather than by genre as I do now.

One problem would be anthologies, but there is not a good solution for those no matter how they are organized. I keep them in a separate library now but they could be located just as easily with an Anthology tag.

I use Everything as a cross-library search utility for author and title but I wish there was a way to cross-library search for tags.

09-15-2018, 04:26 PM	#3
Hawkeye666+ Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2018 Device: Kindle	Thanks for the input. I can't use just one library because there are too many Ebooks involved. I prefer to hold the number under 40,000 per library to prevent processing impact. Many times deciding what genre to use is pure guesswork, and some authors write in multiple genres. I spend too much time deciding where a book should go once I decide I wish to keep it and rearranging and expanding genre libraries when necessary is not a trivial task. It seems to me that using tags (which is what all virtual libraries do anyway) would allow any genre to be accessed and isolated. The time saved in allocating new books and any resizing of libraries should be worthwhile but I don't want to do this if the result is purely cosmetic and there is no gain in efficiency. I am looking for anything that would negatively impact keeping my collection in multiple libraries by author name rather than by genre as I do now. One problem would be anthologies, but there is not a good solution for those no matter how they are organized. I keep them in a separate library now but they could be located just as easily with an Anthology tag. I use Everything as a cross-library search utility for author and title but I wish there was a way to cross-library search for tags.