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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Fixing a mess of my own making. I buy ebooks. They go into whatever folder the format they are dictates (for example: .lit format goes in Documents/My Library). Then they get copied into whichever folder I have the unDRM scripts for that folder set up in. THEN, if I'm lucky, they go into the correct genre/author folders on my F: drive (which is where I store all my ebooks). Problem? I get lazy from time to time and never move them out of the un DRM'ing folders into the proper genre/author folders. So now I'm going through all those script folders and cleaning out the unDRM'd files. I didn't realize I had bought so many books...
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I've been spending part of today doing ebook housekeeping.
My master library is on the desktop, in an ebooks directory on Drive C that is currently just under 16GB in size. That's not all ebooks: it includes various forms of ebook creations and viewer software, plus distribution archives for same, and work-in-progress directories on conversion efforts. The actual books occupy about 11GB. Organization is by category, like Art, Childrens, Fiction, History, Literature, Mysteries, Non-fiction, Philosophy, and SF, with directories below mostly by author, in Last name, First Name format, and directories below each author for individual books. By preference, I get content in HTML format and convert, but I can read just about anything.
The fun area is the SF category, as there are separate sections for books from the Baen Free Library, Tor, and elsewhere, and the same author may have books in more than one section. Since NTFS lets me use links and junctions, I'm starting to apply them, so that going to a directory for a particular author will have entries for all of the books I have by that author, even if they span categories. There will be one copy of the book, and pointers to it. It's also useful with Baen, who publishes a lot of collaborations - David Weber and Eric Flint, Eric Flint and David Drake, John... Ringo and everybody... A lot of today was spent creating cross-links so book appeared in both collaborator's directories.
Finding individual books is eased by an open source tool called
Locate32, that creates a database of files and folders on my drives. Searching for content
in the files is done via Google Desktop. The trick to maintenance on stuff like this is doing it regularly.
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Dennis