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Originally Posted by Adoby
The save template only controls the path and filename outside the library. You can't change the folders in the library.
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Originally Posted by fidvo
This post is spot-on. Forget about Calibre creating a library. With his workflow mentioned above, the book is only in the library for a couple of minutes while you're downloading metadata and converting. Once you've created the proper save-to-disk template, your workflow is simple:
1. Start Calibre.
2. Drag the book to convert into Calibre.
3. Download metadata and cover, do any cleanup of the title and author fields, convert, etc until you get it the way you want.
4. Save to disk.
5. Delete from Calibre. You now have a converted ebook exactly the way you want it, in whatever folder structure you set up with your save-to-disk template.
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Thank you both very much for your help, I appreciate it. To this point I've been using Calibre as described above, importing, converting-covering-tweaking the books, then copying the newly created files-folders from the Calibre library to an external drive and renaming everything (very tedious), then deleting the Calibre library. I'd love to work out a save template but I'm confused about what, exactly, a template can do. Does the save template simply make copies of the files-folders in the Calibre library, renaming both according to my template? That would be awesome.
PeterT: thank you for the link. I've perused it and will read it in its entirety as soon as I finish typing this
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