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Originally Posted by BWinmill
The issue is that people are typically more concerned with the book title, author, and cover than the file name.
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I think here we have conflict of new and old, meaning when computer era started, there were no meta information and people would name their files using system, for books often author_book title. Unfortunately even now metadata in books is not always uniformly standardized, which brings necessity of manually adding that information. Fortunately there are massive file naming and renaming programs, Calibre is one of them, that lets you name files following your set template, which makes them quite useable in file manager situation. Of course 43234280.epub is not something that anyone could appreciate, which means that most Kobo purchased books would have to rely on database.
All I am saying there is room for both. File manager is a poor man's library organization, when sophisticated tools have not yet caught up. But until they do, why not have a useful tool?
P.S. I thought of a compromise- have everything as is for Kobo books, give people a choice for sideloaded books- to process into database or not, and give ability to see them in file manager. And process sideloaded books into database either on user command or book by book on opening. Then everyone can have their cake and eat it too.
