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Originally Posted by jeffery
If you had a huge library and needed to divide it among 8 memory cards, how would you group them so that you could have a rough idea where to go when interested in a particular book or genre of book.
I use calibre and am thinking of exporting my library into 8 parts. but I am at a loss as to how I could group them.
I won't be including romance or erotica type books, nor magazines or periodicals, just books for fun and reference.
I will include science fiction, science fact, fantasy, alternate history, childrens fiction (too many great books in that to ignore even as an adult), modern fiction, classics, textbooks and other educational/informational/reference texts, biblical, etc...
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Divide them by subject: See how many categories you have. Then group them "somewhat" equally weighted by size into 8 large groups.,
Buy 8 cards that are at least twice as big as the largest group.
(I would not get cards less than 32GB each.)
Have a second set of cards for backups.
I don't do what you are planning, preferring instead to use 1 or 2 TB external drives that I have 2 of for each "large" category. I have 2 so that at any time, 1 can be a backup.
1 copy is always in a "fireproof" place, like a safety deposit box. The other is also protected but less vigorously.