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If the eBook has PCIP or CIP data, i transcribe the entire block to Calibre data columns. However, I make a lot of PDFs from articles on the web. Those I have to catalog myself. To that end, I've been studying a lot of material on library cataloging. Even more work, but much easier to find an article, when I've forgotten the author, and title. |
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Then consider that some people have all of those major tags, minor tags, and sub tags memorized. The other option has 1,000 major tags, each having 100,000 minor tags, with up to 1,000,000 sub tags per minor tag. Once upon a time, one could buy a series of books that listed every book ever published, with the major tag, minor tag, and sub tag for that book. That series went out of print, at the turn of the century. |
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Asimov's Science Fiction 2016 02 Nightmare 2013 01 As to the author, some literary magazines put the names of all the authors into the author section. If you want to search these authors, that's probably the way to go. I cut and paste them into the info blurb and change the author to the name of the literary magazine. I tag these as anthologies (short stories) as my family members don't care for short stories. Sometimes you have to make a choice though if you want single tags. So Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine is under Science Fiction - Anthology instead of both Scifi and Fantasy. Last edited by Tarana; 11-11-2022 at 08:57 AM. |
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I have a custom column for pseudonym that later got also used for when Authors >3. but keeps the path short for file based devices.
The Calibre search looks at both ![]() The {authors} then contains the editors or <various> (typical used for boxed sets where the compiler is not obvious on the copyright page) |
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1) Add your own columns! The tags are great but a single field is just too unwieldy.
I have Genre (Murder, Adventure, SciFi, etc), Tropes (Alien Cultures, Coming of Age, Time Travel, cozy mystery, detective mystery - smaller plot groupings, essentially), Relationships (Is there a romance and if so what type), and a few others depending on the specifics of the Calibre library the book is in. 2) Use the different Calibre libraries. I have Fiction, NonFiction (books) and Nonfiction (articles/papers). Calibre is a lot faster with smaller libraries, and they allow for more fine-grained control. 3) I tweak some metadata for ease of saving to folders. I buy from multiple apps and read from multiple devices away from WiFi, so I save books out to a central folder structure which gets copied onto devices. if I've got a book by a new author I set the Calibre author to "New Author", the book gets saved to the New Author folder, and if I want to try something new I can just go there. It sounds hacky, but saves time when looking for something to read. If I like it, I just update the author in Calibre when I get back to my computer. Last edited by Rbneader; 11-22-2022 at 05:12 PM. |
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