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Originally Posted by foice
If I may add. I am not a big fan of the "desktop folder" that many OS have in their GUI. But I have to admit that for a limited amounts of files I have seen people organizing their material on the desktop folder quite efficiently. You put what you need where you remember it is and where it needs to be when you need it.
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And how do you handle a book with 27 authors (my wife has purchased quite a few anthologies that had that many and more authors)? I spent way too much time over a decade back trying to make a directory structure that would give me what I needed to be able to locate books with those complex requirements. Then I found calibre and have never looked back.
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Originally Posted by foice
Of course if you put too much stuff on it then it stops working. I believe that, especially for things for which we (old enough) have a taste for their physical experience, having "desktop folder"-like solution to sort and organize makes sense, more than having _only_ algorithmic sorting.
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I used to have rows of bookshelves in the basement. Having my books in calibre with the ability to search and sort is lightyears ahead of bookshelves in giving me the ability to locate a book rapidly.
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For context ... I often to the bookstore, see books, read a bit and then decide if I want to buy on paper (seldom) or get the ebook. Here most places sell both versions at this point.
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Whereas in my area of Canada, there are still a few bookstores though most of the bookstores that were around 15 years back are no longer in existence but none of the existing bookstores that I visit offer physical and ebook sales. Possibly since, as an example, even if I go to Chapters/Indigo's website, the ebook sales bounce me over to Kobo.