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.

Comments

[cyprinella]

I use Calibre and use the tags to denote fandoms.

[cyprinella]

I use Calibre and use the tags to denote fandoms.

[wide_worlds_joy]

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...

[maryavatar]

I still use Mobipocket, even though I no longer have a pocket PC. The PC version is very easy to use and you can import html files directly into it. I generally use the 'genre' tag to record fandom, so I can see all the stories in a particular fandom by title and author.

I'm a little nervous about getting an iPad - I have so many html, pdf, pdb and prc e-books to convert to epub. I once make the mistake of trying to batch convert my whole ebook storage folder, and after six hours my PC finally froze up and refused to carry on.

[amalthia]

I use Calibre and a seperate folder system. I use the tags to say what fandom the fic is and I organize my folders by fandom too so it wasn't hard to work with Calibre. I currently have over 1000k fan fiction stories in Calibre and it's working rather well with them. :)

Calibre will also allow you to fix the metadata for the stories. Though not with RTFs you'll have to do that inside an RTF file. Not sure what ebook device you're using though?

[elf]

I don't use Calibre. I plan to start, sometime soon, but not looking forward to it; I have fanfic on three different drives and many MANY ebooks, and am not sure whether or not I'd want them all in there. Calibre was not actually designed as an ebook database program.

I put a fandom abbreviation in the metadata with the title, so that when they're on my Reader and I sort by title, they sort by fandom & title. Most of my ebooks are either RTF (because I want to start reading NOW, and that takes the least formatting from a webpage) or custom-made PDFs to fit the 6" screen.

I'm also planning on getting PRS+ soon, and I gather that'll let me sort them by folders on the reader. I think I'd still put the fandom prefix in the title; I don't want to have to create a folder for each fandom on my Reader, especially when I pick up or drop fics.