System for organizing fic?

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I'm wondering what system, if any, people might use for organizing fic downloaded from the internet. Do you use Calibre? A folder structure? Something else?

I've only just started figuring things out, and while Calibre seems great for "real" ebooks, with the automated meta data, and sorting and saving by author, I tend to lean toward sorting by fandom first for fic. I'm currently using a folder system for that, which I copy onto the reader, but I can see how it might grow unwieldy if it gets big enough.

So, curious to hear what systems people have devised....

And a possibly handy tip: I recently discovered EPUBReader, which seems like a very useful plugin for Firefox.

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Personally I organize it into folders. I typically use genres, all erotica goes into one folder, all the fiction ebooks go into another, all the pagan related non-fic goes into a third, and so on. I make sure that the author is listed in the name of the file so it would be "Bates, Harry - The Day the Earth Stood Still.txt". If there is a lot from one author (like Pratchett, Terry) or if it's about one world (ie, The Forgotten Realms) everything goes into that folder, then broken down by author.

I intalled calibre, and it duplicated the entire 2 gb of my books on my hdd. All I wanted was to convert the .lit books into .txt so I could read them on my NDS, but it duplicated everything....

Anyhow...

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Thanks for your input. That sounds like a sensible system too, so between all the comments I got, and the various options of Calibre and the reader, I have much food for thought and further experiments.

I intalled calibre, and it duplicated the entire 2 gb of my books on my hdd.

Yeah, that's one of my issues with whether to use Calibre or not. Seems you're either stuck with Calibre's folder system, or end up with duplicates...