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Originally Posted by dickloraine
...the most simple solution would be to just use the calibre library from now on and delete your old library. Handle all things e-Book through calibre and you are fine...
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AZBooks, and you shouldn't have a big mental hurdle to jump over - the only difference between your folder structure and Calibre's is that the latter has Book Title as a subfolder of Author - the book file names are in fact the same.
Calibre can perform the task of managing & organising your e-book library's metadata, and if you choose it can also manage and organise the storage of your e-books on your computer's disks. Whereas the music collection organisers I know of only do the metadata part, and you have to figure out and maintain a storage solution.
I suspect the strongly stated objections one sees on this forum (not from yourself) to delegating the task of how and where to store e-books to Calibre stem from a perceived loss of power. No disrespect, but organising a bunch of folders and files on a computer is nothing but boring administrivia.
My experience is that many (most ?) people end up with multiple copies of their e-books, audio files, photographs etc, scattered all over their computer, and they ain't backups either. If you can find software to do it for you, then why wouldn't you use it?
But the genius of Calibre is that you get to choose which bits you want and how you use them.
BR