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Originally Posted by cd2013
How do other people do it? If I were to rely on the Kindle alone to browse my library and remember what I have bought, I’d go nuts – and this is without a huge library; some people have thousands of books – how do they manage them?
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Disclaimer: I do not own a Kindle and do not plan to. I did have a Paperwhite I and I sold it when other front-lit readers with better library organization and configuration options appeared.
Anyway ... this is how I organize books on my reader and how I would do it if I was stuck using a Kindle.
- Organize books in Calibre, manage metadata, authors, titles, series, blurbs, covers, TAGS.
- Select a group of books to be transferred to a reader. I use Tags. I tag books that I plan to put on my reader and then from time to time I select them and export.
- When you have the books selected, right-click, menu Convert books, menu item Create catalog.
- Calibre creates a nice mobi (or epub or whatever) book containing info about all your books organized by authors, series, tags, with nice hyperlinks. The catalog contains blurbs, covers, whatever you wish (as long as Calibre has appropriate data).
- Copy the catalog to the Kindle, and copy the books over in an ungainly heap. The catalog should have a name that puts it as the first book in the list on your reader. If you are lucky, your reader supports hierarchical directories and you can set up Calibre to export the books in hierarchical directories, but this is not necessary.
- Open the catalog, choose the book you you wish to read, search for author, title or whatever on your Kindle, to get to the chosen book quickly, open the book, read it.
- Repeat for the next book.
- Even if your reader sucks in the library organization, you spend *much* more time reading the books from cover to cover than selecting the next book to be read. So it is no big deal.