Quote:
Originally Posted by EowynCarter
That what I'm doing currently. But, if I have to keep and maintain a clean copy, there is just no point in using a management software, if I still have to do the work.
Worse, I would have to handle synchronizing the external copies. More work, when the point of using a software is making my life easier.
Want me you insult you too ? I can do that.
|
I really don't get it, calibre is for managing eBooks, that's what it does basically... If you do convert something you do that with the intention of using the converted file on some type of device or software... eBook formats are standardized to such an extent that you can basically use them on every device that supports the format (after conversion with calibre at least, please don't point out singular cases where something is not working and blablabla)... if you convert a file, and it works, why would you have the intention of having the original file in sync with it, you will not use it or you wouldn't have had it converted in the first place... and if you need it again, for reconversion (which is rarely the case outside of initial repeating because you don't like the way the conversion was done before) you can dig it up from your harddrive and do the reconversion...
I think the main problem with your request is simply that you are asking for something (and your general behavior really suggests something more along the lines of "demanding") that is totally NOT the purpose of calibre, and this is no defense or anything, just, calibre is designed for certain purposes in the first place for USERS of ebook reading devices and files who intend to USE books and need tools for putting books to USE (conversion, syncing with devices, etc)... if i am correct, the real life purposes of calibre are totally diametrically opposed to what you are asking for and that is a file manager that also includes all kinds of tools which is, frankly, a totally theoretical situation that has nothing to do with any practical intentions the software suggests and has ever suggested...
In that respect, I can only suggest you look for a totally different program or write it yourself, because, no, for you there is NO way to get calibre useable, because obviously what you would USE it for has nothing to do with the way calibre has been used since the beginning... if there were a class of "calibre" this simply would not contain your purposes and asking for it to change is like asking for an axe to become a steak knife, they have certain similarities but generally using one thing for the other goes along with certain limitations that have to do with certain properties that constitute the respective class... of course, there is the more general class of "bladed" devices as there is the more general class of file managers but derivatives of these are not generally interchangeable in every way... and while this peculiarity is sometimes blurred by the relatively easy expandability of software and yes, you could also modify an axe into a steak knife it would be hard to use it for chopping wood... for calibre, this means (and this is somewhat abstract) that there would be features that do not contribute to its purposes, do not necessarily have to be there, do not contribute in a way that would make the usage of calibre more comfortable and are not simply annoying (like the beeping that comes form cars nowadays when you don't wear a seatbelt) but are annoying because the don't serve any intended purpose at all, which is - reminder - supporting the reading of ebooks and adding extra value to reading devices...
in short, if you define the usage of ebooks differently than "reading" but hoarding and masturbating over how many you got and how neatly you can push them around on your computer in every way imaginable then you really need not be here because that's not what calibre is for...
And yeah, now please insult me multiple times, so this thread can finally be closed and you get banned...