Organising your ebooks

[Quexos]

I keep all my books in my Aura and Glo library, alphabetically sorted too.

[david_e]

Sorted by place of purchase, stored in the cloud, a backup of this file kept on a different cloud.

On my reader I use shelves, organized by genre and / or author.

[Gazella]

Originally Posted by Pookeysgirl

On my Kindle I put them into Collections by genre and by series.

My books on my Kindle are organized exactly the way you do it. It's more manageable and easier to find a book that way than having to scroll through a long list.

[crossi]

Calibre library in Dropbox organized by author and series. On my Kindle in collections of Authors's names with a few in general genres. My one wish is that the collections were alphabetical instead of by last opened. Better yet I wish I could choose how I wanted my collections sorted.

[Bookworm_Girl]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I use Calibre to organize and remove the DRM. I also use tags and series to have collections created for me on my 650. No need to jailbreak/hack or not have it work at all for creating collections.

I bought a cheap nook STR from Radio Shack and I cannot use Calibre to manage collections. Also, the fonts are lighter then on my 650. I'm serious considering returning it.

I don't bother with Collections on my Nook STR & Glow. Use calibre's save template for send to device to organize your books into folders based on your existing tags /columns / series and then browse them on your Nook using My Files. Here's a post with further explanation.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=20

[sabredog]

Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

I use Calibre.
After disinfecting them, I'll assign genre & series tags, as well as editing covers if missing.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I use Calibre to organize and remove the DRM. I also use tags and series to have collections created for me on my 650. No need to jailbreak/hack or not have it work at all for creating collections.

Yep, I do the same. Calbre with a sprinkling of Alf is one of those tools I cannot go without when it comes to ebooks and reading.

[sabredog]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

And if any go out of business, so go your eBooks.

Oh I know about that one Learned my lesson when the Agency 5 saga begun and Diesel denied me access to 3/4 of my purchased ebooks.

[usuallee]

Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

I use Calibre.
After disinfecting them, I'll assign genre & series tags, as well as editing covers if missing.

This exactly.

On my kindle I have 5 folders: "Modern and Classic Lit", Mystery & Thriller", "Nonfiction", "Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror" and "Favorites". The odd YA, western, historical fiction, etc. I'll stash in one of those folders. The books I'm currently reading plus the next few I want to read are kept outside of those folders.

[jersysman]

I use Calibre to manage my books including using tags to set up the collections on the Sony. I use the Reading List plugin in Calibre to send the books and get the books off of the device.

[EowynCarter]

I made my own software, as i need to put my books where I want them, not where some software decides to put them.
I sometimes have different version of a book, i keep just in case (minor edits usually).

Folder sometimes author name, name of the series, and an "other" folder.

[whitearrow]

Calibre library in Dropbox, and the local Dropbox folder is backed up by Carbonite. I keep only unread books and a few favorites and reference books on my Kindle, loosely organized into collections. With the Calibre library in Dropbox, I can download any book from that anytime via the Kindle web browser, as long as I have internet access.

[Katsunami]

Who does NOT use Calibre?

For people who read more than a handful of books a year, programs such as Digital Editions are very inadequate.

[Namekuseijin]

Calibre is fantastic.

but most of the time I simply download into Aldiko from Feedbooks or Gutenberg. afterwards, I sync. specially to merge with whatever I pull from amazon

[miklizro]

Originally Posted by Pookeysgirl

On my PC I use Calibre. On my Kindle I put them into Collections by genre and by series.

This.

[FatDog]

I used to work in a library so I have a "Fiction01" folder on my hard drive where I have sub-directories by author <last name>, <first name>. Every few months I take my un-sorted folder and organize things by dropping the various files into the author directories.

I have imported some of these into Calibre which is a great program, but I have not made it my central repository of all things yet.

I have ... 2 main e-readers. The kindle I share with my wife, daughter, mother and mother-in-law. A semi-steady diet of Pratchett, Reichs, Brown, etc. go here. All the popular/best sellers are on the Kindle.

The PC files I blip over to my Nexus 7 where I read using Moon+ Pro. The initial load of 150 books has been whittled down since Christmas, but I still have months of reading to do before I am ready to transfer new files. The PC files are back-fill of my SciFi library, Military, some technical and some like "Fifty Shade of Grey" which might make for awkwardness at the next family gathering.

Tech Note: I use an On-The-Go cable and "Nexus Multimedia Importer" to import files from a flash drive. No need to root my Nexus tablet. One file I wanted on the nexus was simply sent to "MyDrive" on my gmail account and copied down by the gmail client on the nexus.

BACKUPS

I have not quite filled up 4.6 gigs of space in my "fiction01" folder, but when I do I will start a new "Fiction02" parent folder. I occasionally burn a DVD and make a backup.

I probably should sign up for cloud backup because I know eventually this HDD will fail. But I buy Western Digital Black edition hard drives and the hard drives tend to last longer than the PC so I just pull the HDD, and hook it to another computer to recover my files. In .. 20 years I have never actually lost anything on a hard drive.