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Originally Posted by HarryT
Pretty much, yes.
I'm a little surprised that you're seeing subfolders. What circumstances are you seeing them in?
You can freely copy and delete things from the "documents" folder - that's where all your books go. Don't touch anything else. The key thing to remember is to never, NEVER, unplug the USB cable without doing a "Safely Remove Hardware" in Windows first.
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when calibre adds a book to Kindle 3 it does not place it directly into the documents folder on kindle, it places it in an author subfolder ( i think) within Kindle's documents folder.I'm 99% certain of that but if you think different I will connect the Kindle & run more tests.
If I email a book to my kindle, then it's placed directly in the kindle documents folder, but then the the author is replaced with my e-mail address, which is naff.
if I do it manually with calibre not running then I plug in the kindle, open up my calibre library or source folder & just drag n drop to Kindls docs.
so if , lets say, Calibre put a book in a subfolder, then I moved it at a later date, or renamed that subfolder via windows, then that could confuse the Kindle which had already noted the old location ?
I heed what you say about "safely remove hardware" but I wonder how serious that really is - people in my family plug phones, cameras, USB drives etc in & out of PCs all the time & they never bother with that!
windows, by default, does not cache writes to removable media.