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Old 04-01-2019, 02:19 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
You can create collections on the Kobo itself and books can belong to multiple collections. For your purposes, KOReader might be the better choice since it is file system oriented though it's search capability does require the calibre metadata.db file on the device. Personally, I don't use collections since I ended up with so many collections that going through them page by page was a pain. My replacement of choice is the builtin search capability.

Overall, I would suggest using calibre to manage the ebooks on your computer. It just makes managing, updating metadata, conversion, adding books to collections, etc. so much less painful.
Clarification. KOReader uses calibre.metadata which is a JSON file, not the Calibre metadata.db SQLite database. It doesn't support custom columns, either. Mind, I do believe KOReader allows searching by filename.

That said, I agree, Calibre would be very helpful here. Probably the best way to go about adding the books is processing one folder at a time, add the tags (e.g. Marvel, Marvel.Team Iron Man, etc), then process the next batch.
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