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> IMHO organising correctly your files using aptly named directories I have a lot of ebooks on my computer (> 10000). One problem with organising books and ot
by kranner 7y ago
> IMHO organising correctly your files using aptly named directories
I have a lot of ebooks on my computer (> 10000). One problem with organising books and other PDFs is that sometimes they fall into multiple categories. (Should a new scientific article on lucid dreaming go into 'brain and cognitive science' or 'meditation' or 'hypnosis' or 'sleep' or 'self improvement'?) I could dump each new file into the directory representing the first category that comes to mind and make symbolic links from directories referring to other categories, but in the end the number of categories is practically endless. Search is in practice the only workable solution.
- frabert 7y agoYou can add tags to files instead of putting them in folders, I believe
- kranner 7y agoYes but conceptually it amounts to manual classification into multiple categories, which is just neverending work in my experience. Manual classification is still useful to classify documents according to labels that are not present as strings in the books' contents though.
- efdee 7y agoTagging files on Windows is a horrible experience though, sadly.
- witherk 7y agoMight wanna try calibre. https://calibre-ebook.com/ https://calibre-ebook.com/
- kranner 7y agoMy Calibre installation has 10,257 books! That's probably less than half of what's scattered on my drives outside Calibre. Calibre has nice search by 'title:', 'author:', and 'vl:' but eventually it has still the same problem of endless categorisation.