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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
With hard copy books, one can find the Big Yellow Book that is on the third shelf of the fourth bookcase, even if one doesn't know what the name of the book is. With eBooks, if you don't remember the name, or author, you have to wade through screens of books, to find it.
However, if the digital library is cataloged, with complete, accurate metadata, it can be much faster to locate books on a specific subject, than with a hard copy library.
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Or if you're me, you resort to an internet search using your vague memories of content to find the relevant metadata and then Calibre to find where you've stored that book.
My paper books are also organized and cataloged on Calibre so that I can find them (my lack of visual recall means that I've never been able to depend on the 'Big Yellow Book' method) however unlike my digital books my paper books have been known to disappear off my shelves or be misfiled due to other household members.