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Originally Posted by fxp33
Is there a way to import my hierarchy "by subjects" inside Calibre Library?
Maybe there is an easy way to find all the "litterature / french" ebooks and tag them inside Calibre after import ?
Thank you again for your explanations
François
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fxp33 - if you want to use Calibre to anything like its fullest extent (nobody uses all of it) then you will probably have to 'let go' of the notion of using the file system as the primary access path to your books. Instead you set up the hierarchy(ies) you want independently of the file system using the metadata stored in Calibre's database.
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Best place to start is by reading what's here ==>>
http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/sub_groups.html
Then explore different alternatives, you may find as I did - that I can organise my books in a much more flexible structure than I could if I were I to use 'normal' file system facilities, and more importantly with a heck of a lot less effort to maintain as I add more books.
I think you should be able to use the elements in your current folder hierarchy to populate the 'tag' tree as you add files from your folders. Its something you may want to explore in a separate thread once you've read the basics about Calibres sub grouping facility. Its not something I've done myself.
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I 'visualise' Calibre's folder system as the stacks where the books are kept, and the GUI and the database that's behind it, as an advanced indexing system that
I can bend to my will.
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If you want to maintain a folder structure that does not conform to the Calibre model, you can still use some of Calibre features
- Calibre can be used via the command line interface for tasks like conversion, updating the metadata within a book etc ==>> see http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cli/cli-index.html
- You can maintain the database via the GUI as an index/catalogue but have the book files themselves (.epubs, .pdfs) in a 'foreign' folder structure. A number of active MR members have taken this approach. But Calibre functions that act on the book (format) files themselves wont see the 'foreign' folder structure.
Its also possible to use a hybrid approach - as I do
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