Save to Disk or Send to device

[Dopedangel]

I would like to keep my ebooks
in this way in my bbook

Author\Series\book.epub
Author\books.epub

currently when send to my bbook the files are saved in this
structure
author\book\book.epub


Is there a way for calibre to do it automatically when i send files to my device or better yet save to disk as using my laptop's built in reader is a lot faster.

Another request I updated and corrected a few epubs using sigil and now have to send these files again to my device.
Can you add an option where if calibre finds an updated epub compared to the one on the device it updates it automatically on the device.

[itimpi]

Enhancement requests will get lost amongst the noise here in the forum. What you should do is register any you are really interested by raising a ticket for the enhancement on the calibre home web site. That way it gets registered securely and any progress on it can be tracked.

[Dopedangel]

I registered there recently but am unable to access the site at the moment
is it just me or is the website down

[itimpi]

I think it is probably down just at the moment as I cannot get to it either.

[ilovejedd]

I do believe this one is on kovid's to-do list:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52087

[user_none]

The closest to what you want that is currently implemented is to use a / tag. A tag starting with / will be used for creating the directory structure when sending to the device. All subsequent /'s will be treated as directory separators. So set a tag that looks like /author/series to get your desired structure. Sadly there is no way to fill in those parts you have to set the full into for each book. E.G. /Orson Scott Card/Sci Fi

[Justy]

Originally Posted by user_none

The closest to what you want that is currently implemented is to use a / tag. A tag starting with / will be used for creating the directory structure when sending to the device. All subsequent /'s will be treated as directory separators. So set a tag that looks like /author/series to get your desired structure. Sadly there is no way to fill in those parts you have to set the full into for each book. E.G. /Orson Scott Card/Sci Fi

Thank you for this info, it answers the question I was going to ask. I already have folders on my device and now I know that Calibre can send to them if I set up my tags correctly.

[Justy]

Originally Posted by user_none

The closest to what you want that is currently implemented is to use a / tag. A tag starting with / will be used for creating the directory structure when sending to the device. All subsequent /'s will be treated as directory separators.

Does this only work with 'send to device'? I tried using a tag starting with / to "save to disk", but it just put all the ebooks into the root folder.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Justy

Does this only work with 'send to device'? I tried using a tag starting with / to "save to disk", but it just put all the ebooks into the root folder.

You need to change your "Preferences" for add-save
{tag} is one of the options, but I am not sure what happens if there are multiple tags.
I switch between 2 sets because my Astak V5 does not use Meta-data.
series/series_index-Title/title-Author
0NoSeries0/author/title

But using Tags gives me an idea for a 3rd, a way (unfortunately with the file as overhead since Symlinks are not supported) to flag recent additions.
I keep 100's of titles on my SDcard

[itimpi]

Note that for Save to Disk you can provide the mask that Calibre will use to select the directory structure to be used. This is set under Preferences->Add/Save->Save

[Scott Nielsen]

In the 'Saving books' tab, what is the difference between 'Update metadata in saved copies' and 'Save metadata in OPF file'?

I suppose I only need to tick one of the two but which is better?

[itimpi]

Not sure if there is an answer to this - it depends on your requirements (and you might want both).

Saving the metadata in the opf file saves it in a separate opf file, but alwayws saves all the data and is fast.

Updating the metadata in saved copies is slower as it ahs to update files as it saves them, and may not be able to include all the metadata if the format being saved does not support it. However if you want the metadata to be recognised when you load the book onto a device for reading then it needs to be embedded in the file.

[Scott Nielsen]

I read that as it being better to be safe than sorry and shall save both. The files are small and it's not like I'm short on space. Cheers.

[Sabardeyn]

Thanks user_none and itimpi for the information, I've wondered about both of these issues myself. But I'm still dabbling with things as I try to create a viable system.