For what it's worth, I use a single library per person. I maintain my ebook library and my spouses, and they're separate calibre libraries. They both are saved on a cloud synced folder so I have access to these libraries on multiple computers, but in essence there's only one main library (mine). I have a single library and I make a heavy use of the tags, tabs, rules, custom searches, and plugins to organize.
This structure enables me to have this central library for all purposes (For the "intake", I litrerally have a tab called "needs-work" where everything go first) and once a book is properly edited/metadata applied etc. it finds its tab and/or gets copies to my spouse's library from there.
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