Keep Your E-books Organized

E-books are completely and utterly addicting. Whether free or paid for, these information products are rapidly becoming the most popular way to glean information online. With instant downloads and online payment processing, it is extremely easy to buy e-books on nearly any topic you can dream of, and have it within moments to read right there on your computer. While very handy technology, it does create a bit of a chaos on your computer!

The trick is to start off organized, creating e-books folders as you go. If you already have a big mess on your hands, hang on and we will deal with that in a moment!

First of all, create a folder on your main drive called “E-books”. This is your basic area to store all your e-book downloads. Think of it as a library . . . by clicking on this folder, you walk through the front doors of your e-book library. But in a real life library, you have categorized areas, everything is divided up by topic and that is what you need to do on your computer as well.

There is no need to create any folders inside your main E-books area just yet. Once you start downloading, you will want to begin adding categories that are relevant to your downloads. This differs for each person, so there is no way to tell you exactly what folders you will need to create. However, for example, if you download e-books on ecommerce, you would create a folder for this, perhaps titled “E-biz”. If you tend to download dozens of ecommerce e-books, you will need to create more specific folders such as “Traffic Building”, “Web Design”, “Payment Options”, and “SEO Techniques”, just to give a few examples.

Most e-books come with strange, rather indecipherable file names like “rneagle0248.doc”. This is of no help at all to you when you are looking through your virtual library, so the first thing you need to do when you save an e-book to its place on your hard drive, is to change the name. The actual title of the book is usually best.

Now, for those of you who already have hundreds of downloaded e-books scattered around your hard drive, there is a solution. You need to go ahead with setting up an E-books file as well, if you don’t already have one. Now, set up several folders for the most common categories that you are aware of, you can always add more if you come across another category.

Since most of your e-books will be saved under their original names, you will probably have to open most of them in order to figure out which category to put them under. This can take a while, so set aside a Saturday afternoon or a series of evenings to take on this task. Rename each book and file it correctly as you go. Your main pile of e-books should steadily diminish this way until you finally have everything neatly organized.

It is best if you can start off keeping your e-books organized, but even if you do it later on, the main thing is to always save your files with new names to the right file folder. This will keep your virtual library in order and you will be able to find your e-books in moments.