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Originally Posted by Sirtel
The question was not addressed to me, but I also have well over 2000 books on my Oasis 2. I don't browse them directly, as in endlessly flipping pages on the Kindle. Instead I made a Calibre catalog of all the books on the device and put it on the Oasis as well. It's much easier and faster to browse the catalog when looking for something new to read, and I can use some custom categories in my catalog (like genre). Also I add a synopsis or some other commentary to most books in the catalog .
Granted, this method probably wouldn't work for people who want a complicated and hierarchical structure for their books. I personally don't. The most important thing for me is the ability to quickly find something interesting, or an old favorite for rereading. The catalog is great for those things.
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Thanks for the feedback! This is one of the things I'm considering.
I've tried it before on a small test library. However, I need to clean up metadata, experiment with create catalog settings and decide on a tag convention before I load up the entire library on the Kindle.
Iirc, you can't use multiple, separate custom columns for the tag/genre index. That's pretty important for me when browsing/searching fanfics (primarily: #fandoms, #ships, #char, #tropes). I'll probably try how create catalog handles hierarchical tags after I get my library more organized.