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Originally Posted by DNSB
As @BetterRed mentioned, I made use of symlinks to reduce the number of duplicate books but that way lay madness when you realize how many symlinks you need to cover all the variations I wanted to use.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
That must have been quite a mess.
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Not a mess but complex and complex to maintain. You didn't just add a book in one place, you added the book and then added symlinks in all the places they were needed. Just asking for human error to kick you in teeth so I ended up writing an interactive batch file which I finally got working after multiple tries. Of course, I promptly added new search criteria which needed to be added so back to testing. When you realize you are spending more time on cataloguing tasks than reading, new solutions were called for. calibre was by far the best looking one and I've been very happy with the switch since.
I am forever grateful to Kovid Goyal, Charles Haley, David Forrester and Grant Drake for the creation and maintenance of calibre and it's plugins.