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Originally Posted by PeterT
Why do you need 28 libraries!
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Heh, I bet you're thinking "That's a lot of books!"
Actually, I discovered Calibre waaaaaay back -- I want to say around 0.4.?? or 0.5.?? -- long before I had an ereader. It was just me, my DOS/Win 3.11 laptop and a Palm m500. I used it for historical research along with a handy print-to-pdf utility on the computer. I could then convert the pdf files to searchable documents for the Palm Pilot.
Before discovering Calibre, I had a small forest of printed pages in various piles ... everywhere! Calibre can definitely be credit with saving a number of trees, not to mention disposal of ink cartridges.
My first ereader was a Sony PRS-700, with Adobe Digital Editions. But I soon became disenchanted with it, and the LRX and Adobe DRM formats. So that fell by the wayside.
Then, when I got my nook color with the Industriel easel cover so it could stand up on the table for hands-free operation, Calibre became even more valuable. I've converted the CHM help files for my finicky Adobe software to epubs and put them on the NC. The nook can stand on my desk for convenient lookup and I don't have to quit Adobe to find info in the midst of a mini-crisis.
With the advent of the Overdrive Media app, I no longer need ADE, except for books from the University of Chicago Press. Having found a few cabbages (cough) I can now just put the Adobe items through Calibre for conversion.
What probably brought my dropped libraries problem to the forefront was a matter of happenstance. I had no trouble viewing and switching between all 28 libraries on my notebooks (XP and Vista), which had seen running updates of Calibre from way back. But I got this brand new 20" all-in-one for my birthday, with a 1TB hard drive to go with my 1TB external drive. It has Windows 7, 64 bit. My libraries are stored on the external drive, and the portable is a 64GB flash drive (which are used with two netbooks and other people's computers).
You all probably know how a habit can become the "normal" thing to do. So it was probably just a fluke that all the libraries displayed on my older computers, and when I fresh-installed Calibre on the new computer ... it behaved normally ... and dropped 3 libraries according to the limits.
I can't begin to tell you the value of Calibre. It's a great tool with many different uses. Unfortunately, I have no need for many of the functions that are included in the software. Perhaps Kovid can be persuaded to consider a stripped-down version for those of us that just store, transfer and occasionally convert ... with (ahem) unlimited libraries, or at least a larger number ... say 100, lol. Chances are I could fill up 100 libraries, too, my filing system is a little irregular and designed for quick thinking.
Anyway, problem solved thanks to all of you here and Kovid. Now the dilemma is which libraries to combine for a quick-fix. Let's see ... I can combine all the Indians into one and just tag them East and West for the time being...