CHAOS! (of the digital library variety)

Factual Questions
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Now that I have a Kindle and can actually read ebooks without my eyes exploding, I’m going to build an epic personal library. I’m trying to plan out how I’m going to organize my books. I’m primarily looking for sorting techniques in Windows 7, or even some third party program. But, there’s a hitch.

I have about 5gb of books downloaded in various formats, from .txt to .mobi. There seems to be lots of variation in the naming conventions, sort of like:

Terry Pratchett, Dickworld
Pullman, Philip- The Golden Shower
Let’s all Masturbate, Ayn Rand

I’d love to come up with a way to organize them without having to rename several thousand files. I’m not too worried about converting .txt to .mobi because I’ll do that as I intend to read them. What should I do? Also, how do I get that musty old book smell for the ambiance?

2

Earlier thread on this:

Judging from the lack of answers there, we’re at the “roll your own” stage w regard to personal digital libraries.

3

oh well, thanks. I never thought people would package these ebooks so haphazardly. I guess that’s what you get for reading on the cutting edge.

4

I can highly recommend calibre - it has a very versitile conversion program that lets you tell it how to rename your files when it converts and organizes them.

5

Well, it’s been nearly two years, does anyone have a good solution?

6

As I said last time, Calibre lets you change the metadata on your files. I just went in and converted a whole bunch of DRM locked MOBI files into EPUB unlocked through Calibre, then went through and tweaked all the metadata to format them all the way I wanted them done, then saved them all into a single folder and deleted all the old mobi filed that were on the harddrive, so the only mobi I have are burned to cd.

On my droid, I use aldiko to read the books.