how do you sort and manage your ebooks? i've got like 100 gigs of unsorted ebooks, mostly epub, which random file naming conventions. i wish there was something like musicbrain picard, that automatically scans meta data of all files in a given directory and renames the books accordingly, following a uniform format.

any tips or suggestions before I embark upon this huge waste of time just to scratch an ocd itch. pardon the cringey op image.

are there any reliable scripts to do this shit automatically?

>>24488143 (OP)
>how do you sort and manage your ebooks?
Calibre. Since I started from scratch it really wasnt that hard but I cant imagine the amount of files you're dealing with

I just delete them. It's not like I'm going to read a book twice. I can just download it again if I need to.

>>24488879
Thanks for this valuable input, retard.

>>24488143 (OP)
I just painstakingly rename files and manually set up logical folder sorting structures to soothe my own autism. Bumping to see if anyone else has suggestions though, I'm always acquiring more and it IS a pain in the ass.

>>24488143 (OP)
>how do you sort and manage your ebooks?
I keep them all in two folders. One for books I have finished reading and one for books I have not finished reading. If I want to find a book I just go to the folder I remember it being in and search for it’s name in the folder’s search bar.

As for your sorting problem, just get an AI to do it for you like you have done for your op post.

>>24488143 (OP)
>100gb
Good luck. I don't know of any program that could automate the process for you.
I have a "current" folder, and a general folder. Then separate based on genre.
>religion
>mythology
>history
>conspiracy
>geopolitics
>science fiction
>fantasy
>etc
Then have subfolders for maps, notepad files for your annotations, etc for each book.

With these folders (and various subfolders) and a simple author-title file naming convention.

>>24488143 (OP)
I just downloaded a 10000 epub collection and it's sorted by the Author's name but I just realized that idiot didn't sort them starting with the last name, wtf? Philip K. Dick is filed under P instead of D. That person took the time to compile this huge collection but didn't name the files Dick, Philip K. like any sane person would do? And this is "just" 5GB worth of data.
This is annoying but my eink-reader has a search function so I don't have to rename the files and I only shorten the file names if there is garbage in it. I rather spend time reading than fixing this shit since finding everything still works with the search function.
I would only bother with organizing a library if I plan to let others access them but for a personal library it's just not worth it, at least for me.
You could maybe try to vibe-code some python script to rename the files according to meta data or even data on the internet?

>>24489052
Same. I do Category / Author / Series (if there are any).
>Fiction XVIII
>Fiction XIX
>SF
>Horror
More categories for non-fiction.
It's better than dowloading huge hoards and having them lie untouched. This way I only get what I'm interested in and place it where it could be easily found later.
Relying on Calibre for tagging is probably a nightmare.

>>24489189
But what about a Sci-fi novel with strong horror elements? How do I decide whether it belongs into the SF folder or the Horror folder? Also, do you not distinguish between SF and hard SF? I totally get the ick if I reach for a hard SF novel and then stumble on some "magical" elements that are not hard SF (looking at you, The Expanse). I still like some of the Expanse novels but why are they getting advertised as hard SF if they have magical goo in it? Is this because StarWars ruined SF with their extremely soft SF? Is StarWars even SF? Most of it is like Disney WW2 story camouflaged in a futuristic blanket. Like that turret-scene in the millennium falcon is straight up stolen from gunners in WW2 bombers.

>>24489223
I categorize the author, not books.
>Category / Author / year.BookTitle
Just trying to place him according to the most prevalent genre, really don't care about specifics, that would require prior knowledge of the books or extra research. I have only 4 genre folders - SF, fantasy, Horror and Thriller/detective. The rest goes into Fiction [century]. Were I deep into some genre, I would be more granulated.

If the author has an uncharacteristic book I might add the genre directly to the title - [Historical].
The point of organizing is not to spend too much time both retrieving and placing book into the catalog.