How do you 'manage' your books

[bookaho!ic]

Do you keep all your books on your ereader?

(unsure of how to post a poll) and really want to know whats best
[*]Keep all on Ereader?[*]Keep only TBR on Ereader?[*]Keep TBR and 'keepers/re reads on Ereader?

I dont know what to do for the 'best' as I spend more time 'filing than reading' if i put them all on reader lol help me obewan help me

[maddz]

My ebook catalogue (apart from graphic novels and RPG PDFs) is side-loaded on my Forma as epub files. Those that are read are marked as such - which is managed via Calibre. About 75% of my purchases are via Kindle, and sometimes read via the Kindle app on my phone or the iPad.

The master catalogue is on LibraryThing. That covers all books - print and ebook, DVDs, vinyl, CDs and the like. That's where I post reviews and track my reading.

[issybird]

What’s best is what works for you. There’s no universal best. If you think you’re spending too much time maintaining all your books on your reader, that already eliminates one of your options. Either of the other two seems reasonable and probably comes down to how much rereading you do.

To answer the personal question, no, I don’t keep all my books or even all my unread books on my reader. I keep a largish selection of books across various categories on my reader and choose among them for my next read; occasionally I change it up.

[Sirtel]

My ebook library is in Calibre. It would not fit on any of my ereaders in its entirety, so I keep a selection on each one. I load books to my readers only from Calibre, I never download directly from a store. All my purchases go into Calibre first.

[bookaho!ic]

I keep mine on Calibre and only sideload to Kobo from there. i think i wont bother to keep all on ereader i think 2500 unread tbr is enough lol

thanks for input guys

[Apache]

I use a Surface Pro to read on. I keep all of my books on it and have them in Calibre. I like to reread and this is the easiest way, for me, to find my next new or old read. I also keep everything backed up on multiple devices and online. I know I am in the minority, but as Issybird says, "What’s best is what works for you. There’s no universal best".
Apache

[Tarana]

I have too many ebooks to keep on my ereader. Even reached the limit just in my Amazon library (only 1,700 of 1,900 fit on my Voyage). I keep my books in Calibre, convert everything to azw3. I use the plugboard to add series info and typically have 50-200 books on any one ereader (I have a bunch of them). Then I sideload a couple hundred onto ereader.

I have never been able to get Collections to work well for me.

Try the Calibre method especially if you buy a lot of books. See how it works for you.

Edited to add: FWIW, I do not email ebooks to my kindle because it becomes a mobi file. mobi doesn't provide the font options available in azw3 which has become rather crucial for me.

[pdurrant]

Lots of my books are in the Kindle cloud. All are in calibre. When I choose the next book to read, if it's not already in the Kindle cloud, I use "Sent to Kindle" to get it there, and download from that to my devices.

So my advice is to keep everything in calibre, and only have those books on your device that you're currently reading, or might read very shortly.

[cfrizz]

I have all of my books on my various devices from my pc, phones, tablet & Kobo.

[PurpleStar]

I keep them all on the reader and then delete when I'm finished reading.

[ps67]

As soon as I buy a book I put it into calilbre. And all my purchased books go in the Kobo. I don't put in the Kobo only some public domain books that I download and are in calibre but I likely won't read.

Now I buy almost all my books from Kobo and if the books is properly formatted (if it fit my preferences) I download it directly in the Kobo with wi fii, if the book need a restyling I put it in the archive in Kobo site and I change it and then it goes in the Kobo from calibre.

In the other ereaders I only put books I that I want to read with them.

[Bookstooge]

I use calibre too. any new book gets the TBR tag and I have a virtual library based on that. When my kindle gets low on books (low being under 100), I'll browse the virtual library and pick the next series/book that has the earliest date.

That way I'm reading stuff by date added instead of "what do I feel like". I've eliminated the "feels" from my reading and haven't had a slump in almost 4 years now. It's obviously not for everyone

[Ripplinger]

I keep all of my books on my PC (and backed up on other hard drives as well). I keep about 2500 right now on my ereader, those that I'm most likely to read next. I've been keeping even finished books on my ereader lately, since I upgraded my memory to 32GB on the GloHD, so there's really only a mere 2000 books left to read.

I need to live forever to catch up with my back log of to-be-read books.

Edit: I should add that I manage them all with Calibre on my PC. Once you have that setup to transfer your books directly into series and categories onto your ereader, you should be free of any filing headaches, other than adding the book into Calibre.

When I had just the default 4GB storage, I'd keep maybe 700-800 books on the reader, and always deleted what I just finished reading. Any new books high on my to-be-read list would be transferred to the reader whenever I next had it connected to the PC. It kept the ereader content within limits, and that system worked out great, minimal fiddling with ebooks. I've just allowed myself to up the limit since I expanded the memory.

[JSWolf]

I manage my eBooks with Calibre. Calibre makes managing eBooks very easy.

[DuskyRose]

I manage them on Calibre, then sideload them to my various devices. Or on Apple devices load them up in filemanager and then chose which app to open them in at the time.

I can't get all of them on one device on the eink machines, but usually get the most storage possible for that device. I pick and chose books to store by mood. I usually go back and add/remove books every few months to clean out the read ones, and adjust to whatever genre I'm read at the time.