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Rbneader · 11-22-2022, 05:08 PM

1) Add your own columns! The tags are great but a single field is just too unwieldy.

I have Genre (Murder, Adventure, SciFi, etc), Tropes (Alien Cultures, Coming of Age, Time Travel, cozy mystery, detective mystery - smaller plot groupings, essentially), Relationships (Is there a romance and if so what type), and a few others depending on the specifics of the Calibre library the book is in.

2) Use the different Calibre libraries. I have Fiction, NonFiction (books) and Nonfiction (articles/papers). Calibre is a lot faster with smaller libraries, and they allow for more fine-grained control.

3) I tweak some metadata for ease of saving to folders. I buy from multiple apps and read from multiple devices away from WiFi, so I save books out to a central folder structure which gets copied onto devices. if I've got a book by a new author I set the Calibre author to "New Author", the book gets saved to the New Author folder, and if I want to try something new I can just go there. It sounds hacky, but saves time when looking for something to read. If I like it, I just update the author in Calibre when I get back to my computer.

11-22-2022, 05:08 PM	#35
Rbneader Fanatic Posts: 503 Karma: 2661351 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: None	1) Add your own columns! The tags are great but a single field is just too unwieldy. I have Genre (Murder, Adventure, SciFi, etc), Tropes (Alien Cultures, Coming of Age, Time Travel, cozy mystery, detective mystery - smaller plot groupings, essentially), Relationships (Is there a romance and if so what type), and a few others depending on the specifics of the Calibre library the book is in. 2) Use the different Calibre libraries. I have Fiction, NonFiction (books) and Nonfiction (articles/papers). Calibre is a lot faster with smaller libraries, and they allow for more fine-grained control. 3) I tweak some metadata for ease of saving to folders. I buy from multiple apps and read from multiple devices away from WiFi, so I save books out to a central folder structure which gets copied onto devices. if I've got a book by a new author I set the Calibre author to "New Author", the book gets saved to the New Author folder, and if I want to try something new I can just go there. It sounds hacky, but saves time when looking for something to read. If I like it, I just update the author in Calibre when I get back to my computer. Last edited by Rbneader; 11-22-2022 at 05:12 PM.