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✅ Book File Naming Convention (For Personal Library Sharing)
🎯 Purpose: To maintain a clean, consistent, and informative naming system for digital books in a shared Google Drive, so that files are:
- Easy to read and scan
- Searchable by title, author, or publisher
- Standardized for both academic and general reading purposes
- Suitable for non-archivist users (e.g., my girlfriend accessing the library casually)
🔤 Standard Format: Title – Author(s) (Publisher or Institution, Year).pdf
🧩 Components Explained:
- Title
- Use the full, proper book title.
- Capitalize major words (title case).
- Preserve subtitles only if they add meaning or clarity.
- Author(s)
- List the main author(s) only.
- Exclude editors, summarizers, or co-creators unless their contribution is central (e.g., modern reinterpretations or condensed versions).
- Use:
- “&” between two authors: Author1 & Author2
- Commas and “&” for three or more: Author1, Author2 & Author3
- Publisher or Institution
- Include only if it adds credibility or clarity (e.g., Harvard Business Review, University of Chicago Press, McGraw Hill, Pearson, ASI).
- Omit obscure or generic publishers unless essential to understanding the edition.
- Year
- Use the edition year of the actual book version you’re sharing (not the upload year or PDF creation date).
- For textbooks or academic works, year is mandatory (as editions change content).
- If a book has multiple historical editions (e.g., Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations), list the edition year of the version you’re sharing.
🧼 Cleanup Rules:
- Remove job titles, e.g., “Dr.”, “CA.”, “Editor” unless absolutely essential.
- Remove messy underscores, hyphens, or metadata baked into filenames.
- If multiple versions of the same book exist, add edition-specific info if needed, e.g., “(2nd Edition, 2018)”.
✅ Examples (Based on Real Files):
The Case Study Handbook – William Ellet (Harvard Business Review, 2018).pdf
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith (University of Chicago Press, 1976).pdf
The Condensed Wealth of Nations – Eamonn Butler & Adam Smith (ASI, 2011).pdf
Foundations of Financial Management – Stanley B. Block, Geoffrey A. Hirt & Bartley R. Danielsen (McGraw Hill, 2023).pdf
T.S. Grewal’s Double Entry Book Keeping – H.S. Grewal, G.S. Grewal, R.K. Khosla & T.S. Grewal (Sultan Chand, 2021–22).pdf
Marketing Management (Global Edition) – Philip Kotler, Kevin Keller & Alexander Chernev (Pearson, 2021).pdf
📝 Usage Tip for AI Chats: When starting a new session or priming a chatbot for help renaming book files, paste the following prompt:
const h = () => {}