Thread: Manage book locations manually?
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Old 01-30-2022, 04:14 PM   #4
Doranwen
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
IMHO your method is extremely limited. If you let Calibre MANAGE thing its way, you can file (tag) books 47 ways from Sunday, and FIND them with a few mouse clicks, and send them off to your chosen destination (device or Mail account)
Actually, my method's not limited at all, except for not having a database for the rare times I want to look for a book that way. I remember most book titles and authors when it comes to re-reading, and I have a file manager (SpaceFM) with multiple panes and tabs open to various spots on my file system, which makes getting to any book I want just about as fast as typing it. I have no interest or time to spend hours (or days) tagging all of my many thousands of books so that I can find them the way I've already got them stored nicely. (When I want to find a nonfiction book on a subject, but don't know which one - a common occurrence - I can browse the subject folder and check out the ones I like. Plus my particular division of nonfiction topics probably makes sense only to me.) Also, I store all related files in the same folder, including pictures and even the occasional audio/video file, so a book-only folder system would be very limiting to me. Keep in mind that my usage may not look like yours or most people's!

For fanfics, I actually built my own database with LibreOffice Base (it's now a split db with Base as the frontend) to be able to generate recs lists and find fics by themes (I have a lot of lovely SQL queries). Calibre would be extremely limited compared to what I can do with that one! But it isn't suited to my regular books, as it doesn't have the gui layout that would make it easy to launch a book, and I have to manually add each fic into it to be able to set all the associations and connections properly (authors, themes, major and minor relationships, characters, etc.).

I read most of my books on my computer these days. The few exceptions, I either copy to a microSD card (for reading on an old phone that doesn't even work on wifi), or send to my newer phone via an FTP server (which I manage with Filezilla and the FTP app on my phone). I don't use a Mail account or cloud stuff with my ebooks.

It's just too bad there's not a program that offers the convenience of conversions without a library, and (very possibly a different program for this) ebook database (complete with launching) that *doesn't* try to take over the actual file management. Not all users want that (case in point right here), and there really ought to be one. Alas!
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