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Originally Posted by hsawires
not at all please ask whatever you like. I am appreciating your help so much.
yes without any problems. you can see a screeshot of one of my books.
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.
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.
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.
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The intent of my questions was to get some idea of what you want from Calibre - as I see it, there are at least three ways that Calibre can be used
Simply for doing conversions, downloading metadata and covers, embedding the metadata, attaching covers etc - but nothing is retained 'permanently' in a Calibre library. I think of this as a Calibre workbench.
Others do that and keep a record of their books in Calibre but they don't keep the actual book (format) files in Calibre, in this case they are using the Calibre database as a customisable catalogue. They would have the folders, but the only data would be and metadata.opf files and probably cover images.
And thirdly there are those who do all of the above and keep their book (format) files in one or more Calibre Libraries and very often have the library tightly coupled to their devices.
I don't think I could cope with having meaningless folder and file names if they contained my books. Whilst I don't write anything to or remove anything from my Calibre Library folders, I do expect them to have recognisable folder and file names. I sometimes reference them them in Calibre via the Insert Link feature in long text (Comments) custom columns. Another thing that would bother me is - how can I recover a book from my backup if I cant make sense of the folder and file names.
Amongst the 3.5 million active Calibre users there must be some who use Arabic or something similar - it would be interesting to know how they get along with the 'translated' folder & file names.
BR