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Due to sheer volume of books, I have no intention to browse my ebooks at this juncture personally. Search is the only option if you're in the 10k book range, IMHO.

LibreRead supports both metadata search and full-text search. (Though the latter requires a lot more RAM.)

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What if you categorize and tag your collection? I like lots of overlapping tags, and I like using tags to filter. I personally hate search.

I am actually neurotic and have a database with not only tagging, but Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification fields. ;) I also usually still use search... I just search for the tags I am looking for.

LibreRead probably could use some tagging and categorization fields in the metadata, but that is the sort of features that should be relatively easy to add later.

Yea I usually don't even know exactly what I'm looking for. I'd love an ebook reader which can nail something roughly like the experience of browsing library stacks.

I would love a reading room with a projector that turns a blank wall into a bookcase. It could interact with software on a tablet to "pull" books off the shelf and browse them on the tablet. It could even be responsive to gestures to roll, sort, etc. It seems like we have all the technology to something like this; calibre, Kinect, camera and projector?

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