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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Directories by author is a bad idea (IMHO).
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Much better than any other scheme and if you have too many authors then use Books or ebooks etc as a top level.
Even if each author used in reality 6 directory entries that's over 10,000 authors.
A 32 G byte storage (and part would be OS unless a separate SD card) would allow maybe 18,000 books (depending on text vs illustrations, PDFs with scans, comics etc so can be more or less). You'd likely run out of storage before the author entries have used up the directory space in FAT32 root.
A larger storage than 32 G would want a top level and at 32 G it's debatable.
But you don't want titles in the top level! They are longer than authors on average and would be 1 per book.
My Calibre Library has 1528 folders/directories for authors but 6187 books (most in multiple formats except PDFs). It would take 16 years to read that at an average of one book a day.
Of course if you had a castle or mansion and a massive (inherited?) library which is updated by the butler at "money no object" you'd only read titles you wanted to read, not plan to read all of them. I've a small library that used to be a bedroom that escapes into other rooms so about 3,000 paper books/texts.
My TBR pile isn't all the unread books. I add a few PD ones most days.
So an advantage of an ereader is that you can carry your whole library and read a book on a whim, unless you have acquired a huge number of books that would take a lifetime to read.
Conclusion: A top level folder/directory is a good idea. Calibre supports that and with a Kobo you can save the reading positions/status, move the ebooks, disconnect/reconnect and restore the position/status. The worst thing is titles in the root. Author folders are not a big issue and the best way under a top level. Any storage more than 32G should absolutely have a top level and at 16 G and less author folders are certainly OK