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Old 04-21-2011, 08:00 AM   #51
Astrakan
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Originally Posted by EowynCarter View Post
Different version of the same book, you won't be able to tel who's who.
Sure you can. Tags would be one way, Series another, or if you don't have a use for one of the other fields you could co-opt it for your own purposes. For example, you could use the Rating field and that way keep track of up to 6 versions of the same book. I.e. the retail version is rated 0, your first edit is rated 1, your second edit is rated 2, etc.

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And I like to be able to browse my books using the good old file browser, and the way calibre does it, can't find anything there.
That's odd. I think you must be looking in the wrong directory. If I look in my "Calibre Library" directory, I see multiple directories named after authors. Then in each author directory there's another list of directories, each one named with the title of a book. And inside each of those there's the book itself, plus a metadata.opf file as well as the cover image.

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I have the same problem with calibre than with iTunes and such, software thinking they know better than me how I want to organize my files.
I hear you on this one, and if you're not happy with the Author/Title sort described above, then yeah, I guess Calibre isn't for you. And I fully understand that, I hate how my iPod won't let me browse by directory either, which is why I installed Rockbox on it, which allows for both database browsing like an iPod, as well as directory structure browsing.
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