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maddz · 07-29-2023, 01:42 AM

I have 6000+ books on my Forma, and I organise by shelves which are managed from within Calibre. There’s an instruction set in the Calibre forum here, or plenty of details via a Google search ‘shelf management on kobo using calibre’. The main thing is that you can’t see tags on the Kobo itself even when they are in the metadata, so you need to make shelves based on tags.

I find it best to keep shelves fairly high-level, otherwise it means paging through pages of shelves to get to the one you want. So all my non-fiction is in a single shelf, apart from work-related books. Science Fiction has a number of shelves - Alternate History, Cyberpunk, Military SF, Sword & Planet, and so on, along with a general Science Fiction shelf. I tend to break things down once I get to 50+ titles, again to do with multiple pages on the Kobo.

07-29-2023, 01:42 AM	#6
maddz Wizard Posts: 1,411 Karma: 30039536 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK Device: Kobo Forma, Icarus, iPad Mini 2, Kobo Touch, Google Nexus 7	I have 6000+ books on my Forma, and I organise by shelves which are managed from within Calibre. There’s an instruction set in the Calibre forum here, or plenty of details via a Google search ‘shelf management on kobo using calibre’. The main thing is that you can’t see tags on the Kobo itself even when they are in the metadata, so you need to make shelves based on tags. I find it best to keep shelves fairly high-level, otherwise it means paging through pages of shelves to get to the one you want. So all my non-fiction is in a single shelf, apart from work-related books. Science Fiction has a number of shelves - Alternate History, Cyberpunk, Military SF, Sword & Planet, and so on, along with a general Science Fiction shelf. I tend to break things down once I get to 50+ titles, again to do with multiple pages on the Kobo.