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Old 05-10-2025, 02:41 PM   #12
pmh
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Originally Posted by jackm8 View Post
May I ask why aren't you just using file folders to organise your collection, if you're not that keen on Calibre?
I wrote in my initial post:

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Or just use folders and the Mac OS builtin spotlight.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
If you actually want to read these PDF, I suggest you get a tablet to use to read them. Your Pocketbook is going to be awful trying to read those PDF and converting to ePub is going to be a mess.
I also wrote in my initial post:

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[...], many of those documents are formatted for a fixed page size like letter or A4, also frequently colour, and are not readable on a handy s/w e-ink device like my pocketbook.
That "s/w" should be "b/w", of course. My native language being German got the better of me.


I am really just looking for opinions and info what others are doing with "papers" and "ezines". I am just starting to actually organize the cruft that accumulated over the years and which is in no order at all at the moment - scattered across project or customer related folders etc.

Also I intend to systematically download the full backlog of e.g. Journal of Tolkien Research, Mythlore, FreeBSD Journal etc. - all freely available online, but I do not trust online resources and I want to have this stuff somewhere on a local ZFS pool. And then a backup copy on two more ZFS pools ...


For another example - yesterday I found this presentation:
https://www.isc.org/docs/2023kea_custom_options.pdf

I need this now for something I am working on. I also want a place for this where I can find it in ten years should I ever need it again. Not a bookmark. Local storage. That's the point. And I am completely open to *anything*.

Thanks again for all suggestions.

Kind regards,
Patrick
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