An eBook collection tends to reflect its owner. Some are scattered over the space of a hard drive with no rhyme or reason, and maybe a few are on a flash drive in the bottom of a purse somewhere or an a spare hard drive or CD-ROM. And some are meticulously organized with each Book in it own folder, and the folders of eBooks in the same genre are in another folder, and all the folders of that general category are in yet another main folder.
Some eBook collections might fall somewhere in between. One folder for all the ebooks, with only one or two folders inside that to separate fiction from non-fiction or self-help from history, so the digital books are loosely organized but at least all in one place. If your ebook collection is scattered, you can organize it much more quickly than you ever imagined. And if your ebooks are already micro-organized, you won't have to mess with your system of organization.
You won't have to move your ebooks around at all, unless you want to. If you choose good book inventory software that also allows you to list ebooks, you can easily add ebooks to your catalog and never have to worry about reorganizing your hard drive. Sure the software will let you catalog your books, but that doesn't really organize them, does it?
It doesn't let you literally organize them, but it lets you virtually organize them. You can add labels of your choice and organize your ebook collection however you choose. You can sort by fiction and non-fiction, if you're a general category kind of person. You can hyper-sort by genres, level of violence, book length or ever by whether or not you like the cover graphic. How you organize your library is your decision.
But how's that going to help you find an ebook that's on a flash drive somewhere? That's probably the only thing that good book inventory software can't do. But you could make a label, let's call it Flash 1 for instance, and attach it to that ebook to indicate it's on flash drive 1 (assuming you have more than one). Or you could leave a comment with that ebook saying the same. Then when you browse through your ebook collection, your note or label will be there telling you where the ebook is. You can do that with your printed books, too, by leaving yourself a note that the book "Get Organized Yesterday" is in the box of knick-knacks under the chair that's covered with books.
Your ebook collection may not take up as much space or look as impressive as your printed book collection, but it's just as valuable to you .And ebooks are surprisingly easy to lose, as anyone who has ever accidentally deleted a folder or file will tell you. Ebook collection capable software, though, can help you keep better track of your digital books by letting you see the collection as a whole after you make a library.
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