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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
I'm dual booting windows and linux. Installing calibre on the two OS, and on the same library will most likely conflict right ?
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Well, I think that it might work. Give it a try.
I am dualbooting as well. Except I haven't booted into windows more than 5 times during the last two years. And since they screwed KDE I am not using FreeBSD as much as I used to. Nowadays I spend most of my time in Mint Linux.
I was resisting using of Calibre as my book cataloging tools for a long time. Directories worked well enough for me, until there were too many of them ;-) in various places, with various formats, with conflicting info.
But, since all other solutions were worse than Calibre I gave it a *serious* try.
OK. The Calibre GUI isn't exactly my cup of coffee. The GUI still isn't customizable and I can't make toolbar button for the functionality I want. But they made quite a lot of improvements lately.
With the introduction of Regular Expressions for many operations inside Calibre I just couldn't resist using it any more.
I still access folders with books occasionally. Just open right panel and click on "Click to open" and the folder/directory with the book will be opened to you.
When I select books I want to load into my reader or just "pull out" of the "Calibre Black Box Storage (TM)" I simply select the books, right click and select "save to disk". You can go wild with possibilities here. You can construct any directory structure you wish for book output. There are even *optional* directories, so if you have series info the books are put into series folder, if the series field is empty, the folder isn't created.
And with the new Metadata plugboards, combined with custom columns, combined with power of Regular Expressions the sky is the limit!