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Originally Posted by Ashjuk
Sorry if I've upset you Calibre users, that was never my intention.
I suppose I am a little bit of a control freak and as such I like to have complete control of how data is stored on my computer. I just don't like the way Calibre forces you to adopt its way of working, just about every other piece of software I use allows me to define the location for files produced or edited. I don't want a library that is full of folders with perhaps just one book in them.
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I also have to put up a response - not to argue any points but just to let people look at this in a different way.
Calibre truly creates its own database, and this database happens to contain the actual ebooks themselves. So it organizes this database the way it was designed to do, not the way the owner wants.
For any of you who are in the business of accessing databases, you must realize that the big point of the database is you can
access it and retrieve data. The point is not that it is organized the way you want, but you have a variety of ways to pull information and can add/edit/delete the data as needed. Calibre lets users do that.
I've heard some users complain that it duplicates the ebooks. Yes it does, and if you like you can delete the ebook from the location that you downloaded it to, since once you add it to Calibre it will keep its own copy. This was a problem for me until I understood that Calibre was better at organizing my ebooks than I was. Now that I've gotten past that point, I can let it do its work the way it needs, and I can focus on the results that I want from it.
Response finished.
Vic