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Originally Posted by darknessangel
This argument may hold some water for normal books (sci-fi, etc.) which you just read once.
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Um, you may just read fiction books just once, but some of us like to re-read. A lot of books have much greater depth when you read them several times, picking up on foreshadowing that isn't obvious until you know what's going to happen for example, and often you need to refresh your memory of what happened, before reading the next book in a series when it comes out two years later. If I didn't intend re-reading I'd just get books from the library rather than buying them.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Nice start, taking a dig at the SF readers and calling our books "sci-fi" -- and I seem to get the implication you think we're doing really well to read at all.
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Okay slightly off topic, I know, but I'm a little puzzled
What's the difference between referring to science fiction novels as "sci-fi" rather than SF?
Admittedly, I do get slightly annoyed by bookshops that have one section labelled "Science Fiction" containing all the fantasy stuff as well. Using "Science Fiction and Fantasy" is better, as splitting the two can become awkward when you get books that cross the divide such as the Pern novels, but whether you use SF, sci-fi or Science Fiction seems a little irrelevant.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Calibre will do exactly what you want, and do it better, if you use the tools that it has for doing that.
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Agreed! I used to organise everything in my own folder structures (music and books etc), but then I discovered iTunes, and realised that it did so much more for me that the folder structures became completely irrelevant, so I just let it do it's own thing.
Similarly Calibre, with tags, series, author, publisher etc. fields, the ability to have many different methods of virtual organisiation is so much more powerful than just a directory structure. You could, for example, keep your own system of naming, and add in tags for the dewey decimal system.