Quote:
Originally Posted by streetfox
Agree on that, but it defeats the purpose of calibre managing a book as a logical entity. Furthermore, the links are hardcoded as such they will break as soon as you move or rename directories, right? Which is a HUGE no go for me. Sorry to be so frank.
|
The reason I keep the 'supplementary files' in a directory structure that's adjacent to and 'mirrors' the library directory structure is to reduce the temptation to rename or move those directories or files. In practice I've found that I've rarely needed to do that and when I have its always been allied to a change to the actual library folders. Because they are used to name file system objects I take particular care with author names and titles when I create a new book in calibre.
If I had a need to have the same files available in a place where I could rename and move them with impunity I would create a link to them in the other place - hard if on the same drive, symbolic/soft if on a different drive.
Quote:
Originally Posted by streetfox
Maybe I am puristic, but I want to have one folder for one book. Like the internal structure of calibre. No matter how much and how strange the additional material may be. I buy statistics and coding books and they - almost always - have a bunch of strangely formatted items. To have all lecture slides being copied to the e-reader would be great to study paperless.
I want to trust calibres directory to contain everything ebook-related. So for me it is definately a shortcoming of a otherwise great software. A simple tickbox "manage folder" would suffice and I have to manually select one or more files that constitute "the book". To have that I see the best way are zip files.
|
You do have the option of downloading the source and changing it to meet your needs, and if your minded you could give the revisions to Kovid for his consideration as an enhancement to the standard product.
BR