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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
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.
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Out of curiosity, which file system are you running? I picked that book as a horrible example since the author name string alone totals to well over 255 bytes with the total file name clocking in at 682 characters. Other than ReiserFS, most Linux FS come out of the box ( well, out of limits.h
) with a 255 character filename limit.
And yes, a good chunk of both my books and my wife's books are anthologies with multiple authors.
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
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?
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Most excellently. The book as packaged came with the author names neatly listed so no cleaning was needed. And yes, my Kobos will search for any of the authors. BTW, the prepackaging of the author names was done by the original publisher. The only updating I did was the cover image and moving the subtitle to a subtitle field.
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
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.
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With 12K+ ebooks currently in my library, a directory structure is not a solution I would care to spend time on.
I tried other software before switching to calibre. When my library expanded to having more than 1000 books, calibre was simply the best solution I could find, at that time, for storing and managing my ebooks. Considering that at that time, many commercial epubs had metadata and formatting that could be kindly described as crap, calibre and Sigil were tools I made very heavy use of for cleaning up metadata and editing styles to make reading an ebook a much more enjoyable experience.
Over the more than a decade that I've been using calibre and Sigil, they still remain at the top of my most used software list.