It's disturbing how little debate their is about Calibre being basically the golden standard for book managers. What's more disturbing is this ``golden standard'' is a bloated, obtuse hodgepodge that refuses not to be my epub reader even if I explicitly tell it not to in its settings pane, even if I explicitly specify that mime-type with Emacs--a setting that other software respects, mind you. Calibre doesn't let you sort by genres, sub-genres, or other subsets except by means of a very specific, hacky, exhausting way — way so exhausting to figure out that you'll make like sour grapes and pretend like categorizing your books by arbitrary criteria in a book manager is simply too unreasonable. Why does it take so long to load? Why does my ebook reader come with a library manager and vice versa? Is it so unreasonable to separate Calibre's blatantly separate pieces of software and keep it all under the umbrella of a suite? Does no one realize how stupid it is that I have to wait ten seconds to read a fucking book?
The counterpoint to all this are the type of people who don't care about metadata at all. They're insane enough that they convert all their pdf's to text files (nevermind artbooks, I guess) and read it all through less. Or they keep their books under some directory — say ~/Documents/Books and cd into that directory whenever they need to and then search for the book they want recursively with Find. This is somewhat reasonable since I just use Emacs, and Helm-find supports fuzzy search. Not an optimal solution but manageable, but it's not efficient. Why is there no middleground? Why do I have to choose between Unix autism and super-omega bloat when the only difference is literally thumbnails? What the hell has this world come to?
all the time spent on autistically ``organizing'' your collection could be spent reading it. pure procrastination. a file manager, ext4 or better, and long filenames are literally all you need.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 1:45
Calibre is a reader? I only use it to edit crappy epubs.
I downloaded Calibre to read some scans of Bakemonogatari that anon posted on sama, because it was the first result on google, and I haven't even looked at it since.
Get some real books, EPUB and digital books are for mental midgets.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 8:35
>>4 Calibre is not for comic books. Try comicrack instead.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 8:54
The Virgin Book Organizer vs The Chad Online Reader.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 9:54
>>2 Except that's the whole issue. For the time it takes for me to convert that file to plaintext and grep for it according to the specific criteria I want, I could have just as easily categorized my whole library. Minimal != efficient.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 18:25
1. If you keep books after having read them, you're an autistic shill. 2. If you read enough books that even after having read them, you have so many that you need organizing, you're autistic.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 18:51
Am I the only one who bothers with physical books? I wouldn't trust keeping them strictly in a fragile digital format.
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Anonymous2018-01-10 19:14
>>8 Your post is not only totally absurd but downright embarassing to read. Have you never read a reference book in your life? Or am I The Virgin Peruser and you The Chad Skimmer for marking up and rereading books to study? You must lead a very sad life and unenriching life if you've never even read a piece of genrefiction that you'd be willing to revisit. And adding the minimum amount of tags necessary to be able to search for the author's name at a later time is neither meticulous nor autistic. What's absurd is being such an autistic Unix weenie that you'd make a concerted effort not to do something so simple at the expense of potentially hours manually searching a directory. Or thinking a basic convenience is perverse. It's basically the digital equivalent of taking a shower every day.
just use elasticsearch and index the plain text of the PDFs. you could even call it through Emacs.
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Anonymous2018-01-11 17:28
Nevermind, everybody. I just realized that I can just use projectile. Easy-peasy! Clearly not a standardized solution, I mean, you can't enjoy my fix, but what the hell do I care? Figure it out yourselves, lol.