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Originally Posted by DNSB
I had to burst your bubble but in every test I've done using search has beaten a file explorer approach to locating a file hands down. As for metadata, author, title, series are important to me and my Kobos can search on them.
As the usual horrible example, here's a book my wife recently picked up:
Call of Magic: A LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION OF FANTASY, URBAN FANTASY, AND PARANORMAL ROMANCES by Becca Blake & Margo Bond Collins & Tia Didmon & Harper Wylde & Morgan Jane Mitchell & L. W. Moonstone & Naomi Panthera & Angela Kulig & Krystal Pena & Maya Riley & Karine Saint Jacques & Laurel Night & Cara A. Edwards & Claire Marta & Elizabeth Dunlap & Ashley Amy & Nikki Kimberly & Bex Taylor & Zelda Knight & Angela Sanders & Leigh Kelsey & Joe Quackenboss & K. N. Banet & Ariel Dawn & Faedra Rose & Stacey Jaine McIntosh & Kelsey Gamble & Suki Williams & R. C. Barnes & Jennifer M. Miller & Marissa Ann & Silvana G. Sánchez & Nikki Landis & Poppy Flynn & Faera Fenix & Dora Blume
Call of Magic is stored as the title, A LIMITED etc. is stored as the subtitle and all the author names are carried in the author metadata. Yes, I do use a plugboard that uses the first author name as the author for creating the file name and deciding which author subdirectory to store it in to keep filename and path lengths from becoming a nightmare.
Care to let me know what directory structure would let you look for books by Angela Sanders and have this book pop up in the search results? Now with the ease of using calibre and a Kobo ereader together?
As one of my co-workers phrases it, complex directory structures are so last century.
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I would put it any folder I felt best represented it. Perhaps fantasy anthologies, or fantasy, or a specific author name or a subfolder for series. I would then do a search for any element in the file name that I was searching for, including author name. The search would pick up any the authors very quickly. I can see that some might find my approach a bit rough and ready, but i find there are few cases where a simple filename search is not adequate to my needs, as long as the file name contains the author and title.
How well would an automatic kobo search of its internal DB find each author listed in the anthology? Would "cleaning" the author metadata of this book be necessary? If so, what would that entail? Or does a full list of authors and series name included in the anthology come prepackaged by Kobo?
I should mention I do the search within Alreaderx Pro. It does build a "DB" I suppose, but that's a bit too grand a title for a list of OS files properties like filename for example. In addition, i can also use the onyx UI library, or I can navigate to a specific file via the inbuilt file explorer. I can find books by name, folder, size,date, etc. I have multiple ways of finding a file, all facilitated by simply creating a folder and dragging a file in. If it so interested me, I could search the entire text of multiple books across whatever subfolder branch i choose. This might be handy in reference texts. Indexxing is not required for my personal needs.
I think the main difference here is that I use a folder system. I still use software generated lists of files you could call a DB.
The main difference is AIUI is that the Kobo DB can list or point to the same file as being under multiple categories. I just don't need this ability. In addition your library is stored and managed under calibre on your PC.
In comparison, I store my books in folders, wherever I want. I don't need to calibre to do it. They are stored in folders. I like this method as it simple to copy and store files, and it is very simple to find files by simply navigating through the folder structure. No other software provided.