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Bigo2 · 12-26-2010, 06:07 PM

GoingDown and chaley thanks for your answers.

I thought that someone will give me an universal algorithm or tweak - but it looks like it is not as easy, so I will have to read more, learn more and try more...

I am not a programmer so I do not know how complicated it would be to develop the program in such a way, so that the user would tick "LN first" or "FN first" and then everything would happen automatically, no matter how is the original file structured (provided that the book name and the author name is separated by a dash or so).

Since Calibre cannot do this easily (perhaps it can, but the way it does it reminds me programs form 30 years ago when the user had to be also a programmer), for preparation of the files to be copied to Calibre I have found nice little utility called "Bulk Rename Utility" a freeware program which is quite good for renaming files. This way the files can be prepared so they have the same structure before they are added to Calibre...

As for the Calibre directory structure on my PC, I do not believe that “a large majority of users want to see the names in FN LN (FirstName LastName) order” – that would be exactly the same as if somebody would claim that a large majority of users want to see the names in a phone book starting with FN…
I do not want to "mess around" with directory structure, actually I like the Calibre PC directory structure and eventually all my books will be there..., however, as I already stated, I would prefer the folders named LN, FN or LN_ FN - something like that. Everything else is OK and should be as it is.

Thanks - with Regards Bigo2

12-26-2010, 06:07 PM	#4
Bigo2 Zealot Posts: 130 Karma: 48786 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia - Adelaide Device: Kindle3	Author, author GoingDown and chaley thanks for your answers. I thought that someone will give me an universal algorithm or tweak - but it looks like it is not as easy, so I will have to read more, learn more and try more... I am not a programmer so I do not know how complicated it would be to develop the program in such a way, so that the user would tick "LN first" or "FN first" and then everything would happen automatically, no matter how is the original file structured (provided that the book name and the author name is separated by a dash or so). Since Calibre cannot do this easily (perhaps it can, but the way it does it reminds me programs form 30 years ago when the user had to be also a programmer), for preparation of the files to be copied to Calibre I have found nice little utility called "Bulk Rename Utility" a freeware program which is quite good for renaming files. This way the files can be prepared so they have the same structure before they are added to Calibre... As for the Calibre directory structure on my PC, I do not believe that “a large majority of users want to see the names in FN LN (FirstName LastName) order” – that would be exactly the same as if somebody would claim that a large majority of users want to see the names in a phone book starting with FN… I do not want to "mess around" with directory structure, actually I like the Calibre PC directory structure and eventually all my books will be there..., however, as I already stated, I would prefer the folders named LN, FN or LN_ FN - something like that. Everything else is OK and should be as it is. Thanks - with Regards Bigo2 Last edited by Bigo2; 12-27-2010 at 04:33 PM.