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Originally Posted by silasgreenback
While I haven't mastered using Calibre all the way and am not the "savviest" guy around, experimenting on one book at a time until it does what's needed has been the best way of using Calibre in my experience.
When it comes to learning anything about bulk converting, limiting it to two books is probably the safest way of trial and error.
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Yeah, it would be best to do a few at a time. But that only really works if the result is something you can see right off. Sometimes the results may not show up until later, when you've gone back to doing business as usual.
For example, how to change the naming structure of a file sent back to disk was pretty easy to see the results, but how to go about it wasn't clear at all. Yes, I could restructure the name of the test file and see how it all came out, but even after playing with it I didn't learn what I was doing or what it all meant. Lucky me, I finally found someone on the forums who wanted their file names in the same format I did, and copied his 'code'. I never could find anyplace that explained it all so I could have figured it out myself. If I ever want to change it, I'll be back at square one. With no idea how it works even though I can play with it and see the results pretty much endlessly. Not so helpful.
As for the other thing, I have 2,437 files on the main memory of my Sony. I have no idea what the "Use Sub Diretctories" means. Will I need to empty out my Sony to see what changes it makes? Do I then look under "Home" "Applications" or "Settings"? How long do I mess with it just in order to find out what it does?
And I'm not sure what "Upload Seperate cover thumbnails for books" will do either. Or the "Refresh Sepearte covers when using automatic management". I'm not using thumbnails on the Sony, I just want the book title. Would this save space? Make the thumbnails work differently than they do now? What would be the advantage to clicking that check box?
Why does the author of that bit assume I understand what they're offering, and where do I do to find out, and how much experimentation am I willing to do?
So much easier if I know where to go just to look up those small things. And I'm sure people on the forums get tired of answering the same questions over and over.