There's less than a month left until the new year begins, and many are already making lists of good wishes and goals for the coming year. This is all very positive and nice, even if they don't come to fruition. Therefore, I want to propose a goal today to accomplish not only next year, but before the end of 2014. It's a simple task that will significantly improve our reading lives: expanding our Calibre library so we can fill it with new books in 2015.
These 5 tips will allow us to carry out more exact searches in our library of ebooks
So to fine-tune our library and make sure our Caliber works well as a result, I am going to list a few steps that can be done to our library:
- Update all plugins and program version. The first thing we have to do and almost periodically is the update of Caliber and its plugins, this will not only improve our security but also the speed and better management of the formats. To find out which is the latest version, you can check this website.
- Avoid duplicates of ebooks. One of the things that are by default in the Caliber configuration is the creation of a duplicate for each ebook that we import, if the ebook is already on our computer, in the long run we are slowing down the library and our own computer. In the tab Preferences we can adapt it to our needs.
- No ebook without a cover. Have you heard that you eat with your eyes first? Well, the same thing happens in reading, so don't leave any ebook without a cover, it will make things much easier for you when looking for titles or ebooks in particular. This also includes the rss news, if you can, link it to an image, it will be more visual and faster to handle.
- At least one category per ebook. One of the improvements that the ebook brings compared to the book, is the possibility of linking categories and tags to the ebook, elements that any browser can use, so depending on how you buy an ebook, go to the metadata tab and add a category and / or a tag at least. The ideal would be to create a list of tags and categories and add it to each ebook we have.
- Clear your list of readings to do. Normally our list of books to read keeps getting bigger and bigger, filling this category uselessly. If it can be done, the ideal is to clean this list to the maximum and even send some ebooks to devices in order to lighten this list. Although it may seem silly, Caliber gives a certain pre-eminence to this category and that causes part of it to be loaded into memory, the smarter it is, the slower the library and its management.
If we follow these steps, in addition to lightening our library, we can speed up our searches thanks to tags and covers. As you can see, this is a simple task, though not easy, since if we have accumulated many ebooks and documents, this task can become very cumbersome and even last longer than the rest of the year, don't you think?