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Originally Posted by robcohen
There's an Android app that lets you browse your Calibre library if you have Calibre on your PC run the content server. It's probably confusing because the app is called Calibre Library for some reason. That's what I'm doing.
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Good Info.
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Originally Posted by robcohen
Calibre has its own file structure for storing ebook data on the PC - it's set to use the meta-data to name these (located in \user\login name \Calibre Library. There is (at least one) folder for each author in your library with sub-folders within for ebooks and covers. I spent an afternoon one day cleaning this all up because there were folders with authors' first name first and others with last name first and various variations of some authors names along with duplicated content.
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Just to clarify the only way to clean up the internal calibre library structure (and ensure the database is not corrupted) is to adjust the metadata for the books. For orphaned directories/files running Check Library under Library maintenance will clean allow you to clean these up.
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Originally Posted by robcohen
You control the structure (if you wish to change the default) by going to Calibre's preferences panel then Import/Export and finally Saving books to disk and working with a save template.
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The save template under Saving books to disk control how books are exported out of calibre. The template does not control the internal structure of calibre's library. Unless I missed something big calibre's internal file structure is not user configurable.
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Originally Posted by robcohen
The Calibre Library Android app lets you specify where it should store content/ebooks you retrieve through it. Android's Kindle app, which I prefer for reading, wants books stored in the /mnt/sdcard/kindle folder - and does not seem to read sub-folders. The Calibre Library Android app is mirroring the author-name/title/ebook.mobi structure when it copies the books to the device. The author of the Calibre Library Android app is however working on a change to just copy to a flat file system (/mnt/sdcard/kindle/ebook.mobi, for example. It may take a little time because he's coping with some other issues in his personal life but I'm so pleased he would step up and offer to code up a fix for this issue that might be a preference a user would choose in his app. It's not strictly his issue but he understands it and isn't afraid to dig in and work on a solution to a real-world practical problem. The alternative is for me to go back to searching out and copying *.mobi files over to the Xoom with a USB cable, Fred-Flintstone-style, if you get the reference.
Hope this explains the issue and that the other software author doesn't mind me talking about our sidebar conversation.
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More good to know information. I don't have a Android but you might be able to control the structure of books on your Android via the save template in the calibre's Android device driver plugin.