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Originally Posted by Shagbark
What organizational structure does it allow?
A tagging system like Gmail's would be ideal.
A directory structure is acceptable.
"Bookshelves" are not good enough if you have more than a thousand documents, and a joke when you have more than ten thousand.
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A directory structure is acceptable? Perhaps in some alternate universe but in this universe, having 13,000 books with 8,000 authors is not going to work with using directories unless you are into scrolling endlessly.
Though out of curiosity, given a textbook with 8 authors, how do you arrange a directory structure to make it easily locatable using any of the author names or the title or the subject of the textbook?
A decent search allowing for author, title, series, etc. is a lot more usable. The only collection I use on my Kobo's is one called Finished.
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Originally Posted by Shagbark
Basically, once you have more than a few thousand documents, you must stick with one organizational structure to use on all your devices, because you don't have time to re-organize them, ever. That means using a directory structure, which is the only structure any operating system offers. So you need to be able to just copy the directory structure onto the e-reader, without any manual intervention.
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Whereas a searchable database works very well and does not need to worry about the directory structure. Want to find a book by Craig Martelle? Just start typing in the search box, tap on the name and away it goes. Want to find a book in the Belisarius series? Again, just start typing and when you have enough characters for uniqueness, there it is. Want to find a book tagged with multivariable calculus? Doing in this is again a simple search.
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Originally Posted by Shagbark
You might think I could copy just the relevant ones onto my e-reader. But I've downloaded them into my organizational directory structure. Picking out just the ones I plan to read would be very, very time-consuming. It's bad enough just picking out which directories to copy onto my e-reader. Also, it isn't really possible to know which ones are relevant in advance; reading one article might direct me towards another.
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Again, directory structures are so last century. Set up a searchable database and let it worry about physical locations.