Need Help: Organization Nightmare

[Hampshire Nanny]

Originally Posted by rjupiter

i'm not sure anyone else noticed but tags in books are rather messy and ridiculous, one book i bought from amazon had 12 tags!

i do like the idea of having subset/groups but it would be great if these were not based on anything specific to the book like author, tags etc... and just where i want to put them. (example right click on a book and have a "add to group" option) if Calibre could do that, even by plugin, this this would be perfect/amazing for me.

Originally Posted by FizzyWater

Yeah, some of those are a horrid mess! I revise the tags on all my books and have the automatic import of tags when updating metadata turned off. Then I add my one or two tags based on how I view the books.

Like FizzyWater, I don't use the tags provided by Amazon or any other metadata source. I set up tags which made sense to me and I apply them to books when I import them. I fooled around with Calibre for about a year, not really knowing what I was doing, then once I had figured it out and decided what I wanted to do, I started all over, importing the books once again and applying the organization that I had worked out.

[bethohio3]

Originally Posted by rjupiter

right now i use calibre with my tablet, which is why the screen is small, as trying to read book on my 23" monitor stuck on my desk is just completely unideal.

right now though i'm not sure if i'm going to stick with it or not but seeing as how i don't want to be strapped down by Amazon etc... i may trudge through.

Although I only read on my iPad (using Marvin), I do all the Calibre organization on my laptop (with the huge attached monitor), since it's so much easier to do that way.