Is there a limit to the number of books Calibre can handle?

[ekbell]

I agree that calibre is not designed for a lending library but I found that it works well enough for keeping track of both my ebooks and pbooks.

I really want all my books in one database so that I'm not checking two databases to see if I have one particular book so my paper books are added to my Calibre library and tagged as pbook. (and when I'm checking if any of my pbooks are missing, I pull up my pbooks from the calibre server onto my tablet to create my checklist)

Before calibre I had entered most of them into a bar code scanning app that allowed export as CSV so when I switched to calibre I just had to master the Import List plugin.

Nowadays I just add them as I buy them.

[audeojude]

Originally Posted by theducks

(A lot of mine we Baen Book and the had many of these on the CD's or Free Library

I still have a Baen Account. Don't use it much any more, but loved it and spet a lot of money there in the past. The deals for the packages of books got worse both price and selection (mostly selection) and the free library kinda got abandoned from upkeep, or at least it felt that way. Also though Baen used to be my go to for genre's I like compared to other publishers, the quality sorta slacked a bit and then indie publishing took off and all of a sudden thousands of books more solidly in my favorite genre's or mini genre's were available on amazon. To be honest I haven't read more than 40 or 50 books from any of the old traditional publishers in the last 15 years. The really good dynamic new authors are almost all indie now, as well as the ones diving into making new genre's and writing old school stuff like I started with as a child in the 70's, or the older stuff I love as a child written in the late 1800-1960's before i was around. So much goodness!!!!!

I actually have noticed a good handful of my old favorite authors seem to be going indie now and moving some of their old books that seem to no longer be under the old publishers to their own accounts now on amazon. Every once in a while I will see what seems to be a new book also.. One day I might check them out. it's been so many years since I read much of theirs that I have trouble keeping up with all the new stuff from the newer authors I follow.

[theducks]

@audeojude Jim died quite a while back and the choice of what is currently picked by Toni is just not my cuppa. I still buy some Baen, all from the old stable of authors.

I agree, the bundles are no longer the great bargain they were. That is a business decision that probably was needed to survive.
As to the Free Library, 2 things. 1) Eric Flint passed. 2)The same reason bundles got pricier. Other retailers did not want back room sales.

[audeojude]

I have had a least 10 authors I really liked pass in the last 4 years. In a selfish kind of way, its very sad. So many series that there will never be another book. Also probably 30 of my current favorite authors are 70 or older. So I am anticipating more of the same. lol. seeing as I am going to be in these age range soon no guarantee I will be around to read them anyway

I find this age range tends more genre's I like or mindsets that are simpatico. Though that isn't at all to say that a lot of younger authors aren't. However The deeper political and even most of the better character driven writers tend to be older with more life experience.

[audeojude]

Originally Posted by ekbell

I agree that calibre is not designed for a lending library but I found that it works well enough for keeping track of both my ebooks and pbooks.

I really want all my books in one database so that I'm not checking two databases to see if I have one particular book so my paper books are added to my Calibre library and tagged as pbook. (and when I'm checking if any of my pbooks are missing, I pull up my pbooks from the calibre server onto my tablet to create my checklist)

Before calibre I had entered most of them into a bar code scanning app that allowed export as CSV so when I switched to calibre I just had to master the Import List plugin.

Nowadays I just add them as I buy them.

I'm in the middle of a couple year upgrading of all my infrastructure as I have money, resources and time. When it starts to solidify I might take and see if I can export my paper library from readerware and importing into calibre with that paper book notation.



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