Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
by kps on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @10:38AM
(#19199635)
> Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc...
Yes, and I want to be able to do that with all my books, not just the ones that the ebook reader can handle.
Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
by ohithereyou on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:19AM
(#19198726)
>it's very cumbersome to manage and use
Maybe if you just dump a large number of unsorted files in place and do nothing with them. With a decent file manager and an hour or so, you can add many books and symlink them to the metadata directory with no issue.
Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
by GrinningFool on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @09:55AM
(#19199295)
> aybe if you just dump a large number of unsorted files in place and do nothing with them. With a decent file manager and an hour or so, you can add many books and symlink them to the metadata directory with no issue.
Alternatively you can use a program's built-in library with no time cost to yourself...
Re:Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
by kirion25 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @02:20PM
(#19201891)
> With a decent file manager and an hour or so
An hour? You've made my case. It takes at most a couple of minutes for importing hundreds of books in Calibre. Metadata retrieval is automatic (from the file itself and/or online). Everything happens in a few clicks.
When your collection grows though, issues start to show up. Being able to sort, and find a book based on other information becomes much more useful: date of publication, genre, custom tags, etc... While you could always integrate these in your filename/directory structure, with the help of symlinks, it's very cumbersome to manage and use.