All my PDFs/words/slides were stored in folder with sub folder for every area of interest, exactly the same as Sriram did. And I'm using ScrapBook add-on for firefox to store all web clips/pages which from MOS or other web site. -- Kamus <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> Visit my blog for more : http://www.dbform.com Join ACOUG: http://www.acoug.org On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 2:45 AM, David Mann <dmann99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This might be a little off the mark but I am experimenting with > keeping my e-books, white papers, pdfs, slides, etc in a program > called Calibre. Inside Calibre I am seeing it can search on tags or > comments you create for each cataloged item... Not sure if there is a > full text search available but I do know Calibre has some plugins > available for it. > > http://calibre-ebook.com/about#features > > The nice part is the conversion feature. My library consists of some > formats my e-Reader cannot handle and out of the box Calibre has a > conversion engine that works pretty well. For example I have a lot of > OReilly books in .CHM help file format. These are easily readable on > PCs. They can be opened with CHMox on Mac/OSX. But other than that > they are pretty useless. Calibre converted them to a format my Kindle > could handle so I am not stuck booting up a PC to get at the info or > if I want to read them on the go. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave Mann > www.brainio.us > www.ba6.us - Database Stuff - http://www.ba6.us/rss.xml > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l