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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
True, which is why I said a folder-like structure, which could also be implemented by using a collection-like structure. If you could be able to make sub-collections. Give a book a sub-tag. Simple as that. A sub-tag is the same object as a tag, but a child of the tag. So, if you want to show tags, you can still see all tags, normal and sub. If a tag has sub-tags in it, it will show those sub-tags. So, a sub-tag will show up twice in a tag-list. Once as child of a tag, and once "in the root" so to speak.
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All of which calibre does.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
...So, you'll buy me a new external storage drive? Because I don't have the €200 for a larger one (besides, if I had, I'd have gotten me that new Sony!)...
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On my income...excuse me, lack of income? I'm retired. I have to go on a mustard sandwich (without the bread) diet to afford new things. fortunately, I like mustard.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
...I have my books stored on my external hard drive. In four formats: raw (which isn't much more than an unpacked epub structure), epub, mobi and PDF. And no, I don't use Calibre to make all those formats, I make use of a zipper, mobigen and LaTeX (and some homegrown handywork to stich it all together). The only format I don't use is epub (except to generate my mobi books). Because Calibre insists of making a copy of the books I add, it's a complete waste of space. I tried to import it all in Calibre, but it decided to handle each format as a different book, instead of making it all one book, with 3 formats...
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You keep four copies of each book (
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