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Originally Posted by Starson17
I suspect you didn't like my library vs. filing cabinet analogy. It wasn't meant to portray the difficulty of finding the filed item. Both can be well indexed. It was meant to indicate that a library files individual books by a characteristic of the book, while a filing cabinet files groups of related work papers together (in a folder) by some characteristic of the group that may or may not appear in each individual paper.
The OP wanted to keep his documents/books together with other files the way individual papers are kept together in a folder.
Calibre is kind of like a giant automated free library that you can attach to your home if you just give it some space. It has shelves and a flexible indexing system. It has automated robots that fetch your books from the shelves. It will even let you walk around the shelves, if you wish.
However, Calibre requires you to use the shelves and indexing system, as designed, if you want the robot retrieval system and the library to work properly. If you absolutely insist that the books (or papers) be kept side by side with some other books (or papers) that are different in some way so that you can find them sitting side by side when you walk around the library, then Calibre is not for you.
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Methinks we have had a failure to communicate.
I was agreeing with you. What I found curious was that lalebarde found calibre unsuitable for keeping his PDFs when I feel calibre would be especially suited for making them more accessable than a folder/filename tree system, which requires considerable duplication to file in multiple categories. The folder/filename tree system is a dinosaur (like me) that many people (unlike this old T-Rex) seem to have trouble letting go of.