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Fat Abe · 01-19-2023, 11:58 PM

This is a sign of my Banal-Retentive personality. When I task myself with reading books in order, I need a reference of the titles by year of publication. First, the process begins with searching the internet for lists of books in order. This site is my usual starting point:

https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/

Next step is to copy the list (as best as I can) into a text file, which is edited with Notepad. I annotate the file with ascii characters like $, *, #, etc., to indicate whether a book needs to be purchased, was already purchased, is available on gutenberg.org, etc. This is imported into Calibre, with the text to epub conversion set to not alter font size. The author is changed into Anon or other silly name. Voila, I now have each list in my Kobo reader, ready for reference at any time, without having to fire up my computer to look up the name of the next book to read. Super helpful for the Ed McBain 87th Precinct novels.

Now, it would have been preferable to have an Excel file holding the titles, publication date, author, availability of the ebook formats, ISBN, and other useful info. In the past, this was useful for movies (vhs, laserdisc, dvd, and blu-ray). I would annotate how the film ended, and add keywords, with terms like film-noir. Has any enterprising reader done this for books?

01-19-2023, 11:58 PM	#1
Fat Abe Man Who Stares at Books Posts: 1,826 Karma: 10606722 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: 50th State, USA. Also, PA, NY, CA, and elsewhere. Device: All of the Above	Books in Order (reference on your e-reader) This is a sign of my Banal-Retentive personality. When I task myself with reading books in order, I need a reference of the titles by year of publication. First, the process begins with searching the internet for lists of books in order. This site is my usual starting point: https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/ Next step is to copy the list (as best as I can) into a text file, which is edited with Notepad. I annotate the file with ascii characters like $, *, #, etc., to indicate whether a book needs to be purchased, was already purchased, is available on gutenberg.org, etc. This is imported into Calibre, with the text to epub conversion set to not alter font size. The author is changed into Anon or other silly name. Voila, I now have each list in my Kobo reader, ready for reference at any time, without having to fire up my computer to look up the name of the next book to read. Super helpful for the Ed McBain 87th Precinct novels. Now, it would have been preferable to have an Excel file holding the titles, publication date, author, availability of the ebook formats, ISBN, and other useful info. In the past, this was useful for movies (vhs, laserdisc, dvd, and blu-ray). I would annotate how the film ended, and add keywords, with terms like film-noir. Has any enterprising reader done this for books?