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Originally Posted by DNSB
For an example, try finding the story Solstice on the Slab co-written by N. A. Grotepas in the Summer Solstice Shenanigans anthology using any directory structure where you not going to spend more time creating and maintaining the directory structure than reading. |
Calibre is much easier, of course, but here's how I'd do it using file system:
- Create a directory named "Books", and place each book in a subdirectory below that. Basically, what Calibre does, but without author directories.
- Create a directory named "Authors" at the same level as "Books". Create a subdirectory for each author inside the "Authors" directory.
- In the "N. A. Grotepas" subdirectory, create a symbolic link to the "Summer Solstice Shenanigans" subdirectory.
This allows you to search for an author, change to that author's directory, and see all the books they are related to. Think of the author as a type of "tag" for the book, and you can see that any other tag system you want can be set up the same way as the Authors directory (Genre, etc.).
Again, Calibre makes it far easier, because a database is designed to handle the relations that you would have to manually create using the file system, plus allows you to easily search for details that are not tag-like (ISBN, publication date, etc.).