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Old 08-19-2010, 01:18 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by roryok View Post
Hi Folks

I have a collection of ebooks which are currently in two folders:

- Folder One contains folders named A through Z. Each of these contains Authors subfolders in the format 'Lastname, Firstname'.

- Folder Two contains author subfolders in the format 'Firstname Lastname', - but does NOT contain separate folders for each letter. (i.e., all author subfolders are in the one folder regardless of name)

For neatness sake, I want to combine the two folders into one collection, but I'm stumped as to which is the better format to use. I use Calibre to convert/transfer these, but I hate the way Calibre creates subfolders for each individual book, and this cannot be changed.

I want an optimal folder structure for the books which will play nice with Calibre import. Any suggestions? I realise it's kind of a vague question and there may be no 'right' answer, but I'd like to hear what structures other people use and what success or problems they've had
Like many others after reading Lady Fitzgerald and the person who quoted a eulogy to Calibre (can't see his name from the edit window), I'm going to be examining Calibre much more than I have done up to now as an ebook manager - have just used it for converting to epub.

But Lady F has a point - one needs a bucket to hold all ones files in case one ever needs to change, say from epub to mobi or from this computer to that one, etc, and you have a double setup, Roryok. And you're right, last name, first name is the way to go. But if you want to have some extras, without sacrificing too much hard disk real estate and you have a half-way decent operating system, you can have another - or two or three other - systems at the same time. It only requires a little routine when you add a new book.

Save it in last name, first name - do you really need that A-Z first level? - and then create what decent operating systems call a symlink and Windows calls a shortcut to that file in your alternatives. I can imagine you wanting to have a list in title order - there you maybe want A-Z, or genre order.

Just my 2 cents worth.
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