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Originally Posted by toddos
Welcome, though it's generally frowned on making posts to old threads that have otherwise died.
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Sorry! I couldn't find any specific guidelines on old topics, so I assumed 3 months was ok. Please let me know what the forum's guideline is on this!
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Originally Posted by toddos
This I don't understand. Dropbox doesn't enforce an internal folder structure. ... For things not managed by Calibre, put them in other folders under the dropbox root.
It sounds like you want Sony's Reader software ... It will sync documents to your T1 and should have collection functionality as well. ... Why try to make Calibre fit a scenario that it wasn't designed for, when there's already perfectly good software to do what you want already? |
My bad; I meant to say that Dropbox wanted to use it's own folder, which is different from the folder I had just started to use to keep my Masters material. The folder structure was put in by myself—which I'd like to keep intact.
Sony's Reader software has the same problem as Calibre: It refuses to directly manipulate the files on the reader, but insists on importing everything onto the computer, then managing it, then reflecting the changes back on the reader. The "import everything" bit is what I want to avoid, because having a second copy of literally hundreds of PDFs (some in the 20-30 MB range) is not ideal, especially when I already have a folder structure that I've sorted and would need to keep up-to-date anyway.
Yes, Calibre may not be designed for what I'm doing, but I was just hoping that, being more open than Sony's software will ever be, I could make it work...
I'm on a Mac, for what it's worth, but the laptop that had been lent to me for the Masters (i.e., my main work machine, but will have to be given up after, so I don't want to pair my reader with that) runs Windows. Dropbox is sync'd across both.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
If you don't than how are you keeping your books organized? I understand that your system works for you as you have done itthis way for a reason.
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My advice is to maintain your own structure but maintain a calibre library on your computer as well for a while. Use it for a month or so or until you find a better option.
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Life is too short to worry about disk space and cloud space is getting cheaper too  |
Well I haven't really started using Calibre for this very reason. To have to sort out hundreds of documents in Calibre is no small task, so I don't want to go through with it unless there's something to be gained in ease of management after—moreso since my Masters will end in July, after which I'll be removing everything related to it off the reader (and also out of Calibre/Sony's Reader). Unfortunately maintaining two folder/library structures is not worth it...
I guess I should be looking for software that will directly manipulate the reader's collections, or, failing that, do everything manually on the reader
. But thanks for the replies!