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Originally Posted by cd2013
If I didn't use Calibre, it would be the equivalent of having physical books all over the place on the floor in a dusty loft. Which books by SuchAndSuch have I not yet read? What books on $topic would I recommend? Spend hours in the loft before being able to ansnwer  |
Lol, this is actually my default mode. I use an iPad for majority of my personal computing so I often let hundreds of reading material accumulate before I organize them in Calibre and do any metadata cleanup. As such, any thoughts or personal tags I might have had after reading would've been forgotten already. That said, I tend to read stuff as I acquire them so I don't really need Calibre to keep track of read/unread.
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Originally Posted by cd2013
For example, a few weeks ago I wanted to recommend a series of 4 novels to a friend. I remembered the topic but not the name of the author nor the title. Had I not tagged them in Calibre, it would have taken me quite a bit of googling to find the title name.
Or I wanted to remember what essays I had read on a certain, very specific topic (I had to recommend something to a friend in this case, too). Again, without tags I'd have struggled, because not all the books had the explicit topic in the title.
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I'd often remember phrases from the book but not the author or title. For this, I find the library-wide, full text search on the Kindle incredibly useful. At times even more useful than Calibre tags. Granted, I have less than a thousand AZW3/MOBI files on my Kindle.