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Kovid,
Thanks for the response. I see your point but I'm kind of caught in the middle here. Have not minded the hierarchical directory structure Calibre uses since I would presumably never have any need to traverse it. Unfortunately I suspect that's not the case if I want to use Calibre Library on my tablet to copy ebooks over to my tablet. However it looks like CL simply copies over everything as it finds it.
If I change Calibre's preferences so it will store everything in my Calibre Library folder on the PC without author sub-directories will it still function correctly? I spent a good bit of time clearing up duplicates because at some point the sub-directories were by author with the last name first and more recent additions had first name first. I see the save template in Saving Books to Disk is currently set to
{author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}
Could I still get unique file names with author and title if I adjusted this somewhat and what's the best way of converting my existing library to a new format? My guess is copying the library to another location, deleting all books from Calibre, making the template change, finally then adding everything in the temp location again - but would I lose metadata? And do you have any suggestions for constructing a new template that wouldn't run up any name length restrictions but would more or less guarantee unique file names?
If I could do the above I guess it would eliminate the issue with the Android app but I sure don't want to create a mess now my library is all neat and clean. I just love Calibre now I'm getting used to its ways and hope there's a way I can be happy on the PC and my tablet both.
Thanks!
Rob
PS. I do realize I can just go back to searching in Windows Explorer for *.mobi in the \users\login name\Calibre Library and then copying everything over to my tablet with a USB cable but that method isn't the most friendly or easiest.
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