[hsawires]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@hsawires I hope you won't mind me asking a couple of questions

not at all please ask whatever you like. I am appreciating your help so much.

1. Are you able to enter Authors, Titles etc as RTL Arabic text into the Metadata Edit dialogue etc and see it on the Book List, Book Details etc?
   

1. yes without any problems. you can see a screeshot of one of my books.
   
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   If the answer to 1 is 'Yes' and given Kovid's input, why does it matter how Calibre creates it's library folder and file names.

   redundancy my friend, HD spaces, duplication of the same file. I think it is an important issue, specially when i decided to use a data management software.
   
   

   Providing what one gets within Calibre itself, and what ones gets on anything that Calibre exports has real author and book names etc in the appropriate character set then its naming of folders and files in the library is 'theoretically' irrelevant. I sometimes wonder if it might have been 'better' if Kovid had decided to use the Author and Book identifiers (integers) to create folder and file names.

   I am afraid that I couldn't understand your point.
   
   If you mean that storing the books in the Library in whatever manner will not affect using Calibre. yes this is true unless it make another copy of the file. and that lead me to the "duplication issue" again, I echo Sabardeyn in his last post. that I have to deal with two places storing the books, one for Calibre and the other is the safer one.
   
   

   Is Calibre's ability to integrate with phones, e-book readers and tablets one of your key requirements.

yes of course and no problem with that, except exporting a document to epub in Arabic have some problem some in encoding the characters, vowels and special character, and some issue with the direction RTL. but this is not my case because most of my e-books are (text on image) or image only PDF's. but if you like, it will be a pleasure for me starting a Thread about all the Arabic issues in Calibre.