organizing ebooks and fanfic

[ratcreature]

I currently use Calibre to organize my ebooks, and I wonder if it would work out to use it to backup and keep track of the fanfic I downloaded on my tablet as well.

I do not want both mixed up, because the fanfic would totally drown out the books by an order of magnitude, and also the tags I want to use for both are very different. I've seen an option in Calibre to create virtual "libraries", but I wonder whether that is really good for keeping things separate. Has anyone experience with using Calibre for both? Or a better system?

I'm a bit wary to import hundreds of stories into my Calibre Library only to find out it would be a mess I'd have to clean up manually...

Comments

[bettina]

I have a Kindle Paperwhite* and it does show you the title and author of the book or fanfiction, if you for instance download the file (mobie) from AO3. As far as fanfiction goes, I guess it's a metadata thing. If the fanfic for some reason doesn't have that, it wouldn't show it to you on the Kindle. But you can always add it with Calibre.

You can create collection on the Kindle. I just use general collections, like books read and unread, fandom, etc. But other people have a lot more categories, like author collections or series collections, etc.


*Actually I have several Kindles, an old one, Paperwhite and a Fire and all of them always show title and author.

[ratcreature]

So does a Kindle recognize the meta formats Calibre uses (like say its tag fields)? Or the AO3's tag fields? I would really love a way not to have to categorize the same things again and again across devices.

[bettina]

Kindle doesn't do tags. All it ever shows you is title and author on the screen. Depending on if you've chosen list view or cover view, it also shows you the cover of the book (or fanfiction if that one has a cover).

The closest thing to tags are collections. You can have a book in more than one collection, though. And the Kindle synchronizes your collections across all your Kindle devices.