Becoming a format snob

[toddos]

Originally Posted by darknessangel

I only read pdfs covered in white-gold and blood diamonds...

Eww, PDF.

[kdf9511]

Originally Posted by toddos

Also, disk space is cheap and books are small. You'd have to have a very large library of ebooks in order to use more than a couple of GB of storage space. There are more important things to worry about than wasting a couple of extra MB duplicating books.

Well I just took a quick look at my library and I have a few more than I thought. I'm using up about 91 GB with just over 65,000 files. I know a lot of them are duplicates from moving between a few different computers over the years and I know there are a lot of them that I have in multiple formats.

Originally Posted by vishcompany

I thought very similar, when I first tried calibre. I even dismissed it for a while.
But you can set calibre to load the files onto your reader exactly the way you want it to (folder structure), plus: if you ever tried a reader, which also presents you collections (equvalent to calibre tags), you probably will never want to miss this feature again. Folders are nice, but collections give you so many more possibilities.
I usually download a book onto the desktop, import it and delete it from desktop right away.

All of my books are sorted right now into folders under the main catagorys of fiction and nonfiction. The fiction are the sorted by author then by series if applicable or just alphabetical by title. The nonfiction books are sorted by subject then alphabetical by title, with the exception of some of my technical books witch are sorted by publisher.

Most of my fiction books don't have any metadata in them as they are rtf, and txt files witch worked great with uBook. I also have a lot of .lit ones from when I was converting to that via the MS Office plugin before I found uBook.

[toddos]

Originally Posted by kdf9511

Well I just took a quick look at my library and I have a few more than I thought. I'm using up about 91 GB with just over 65,000 files. I know a lot of them are duplicates from moving between a few different computers over the years and I know there are a lot of them that I have in multiple formats.

While that's quite a lot more than I have (700MB in 1350 files, including covers, calibre opf files, books in several formats, and some dupes), 91GB is still pretty much pocket change when it comes to modern storage. That's not even 1/10th of a 1TB drive (931GB), and you can pick up external 1TB drives for dirt cheap ($50 or less on sale). If all you have is a laptop with a 64GB or 128GB SSD (hello, Macbook Air), invest in external storage and move your books, music, videos, etc there when you don't need them on the go.

Seriously, there's no good excuse these days not to have at least 1TB of available storage space, if not 2TB or 3TB (or 10TB, like I have on hand )