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Originally Posted by toomuchreading
Neat. How do you save the photo's, games and video's into Calibre?
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First, I use Windows, so some of what follows may be specific to that OS, but any OS/X and Linux differences can probably be addressed with trivial scripts. Second, I do not use calibre to integrate with external devices, for books or anything else. So I only use calibre to organise stuff and for ebook conversion, editing etc. Third, I do not keep anything that calibre uses on network drives - i.e. configuration or library folders.
For personal photos & videos I have a separate Library.
- I keep 'albums' of photos in cbz files. An album is just a collection of images, usually they're from a particular event. I don't need to categorise or tag individual photos. I put the year and month into Author and an event name into Title - eg 2013-02 - Beijing Trip. I view the photos with a couple of comic viewers - my current favourite is HoneyView. I create the cbz files by zipping up a folder of images, with an extension of .cbz which I then drag/drop into calibre. Once they're in the calibre library and its been backed up (daily local, and weekly off-site) I delete the original image folders.
- For the videos I just add the video files (these days mainly MP4). Images and videos are often in the same folder.
So the Libraries/MyMedia/2013-02/Beijing Trip (127) folder has Beijing Trip - 2013-02.cbz, and Beijing Trip - 2013-02.mp4 files, plus the metadata.opf and cover.jpg file. I make the cover.jpg from a blended image collage, that I put at the top of the cbz.
For games I also have a separate library
- I put a shortcut (.lnk) to the game into my calibre Games library. Again its just a method or organising things and to have a consistent catalogue.
- I'm not much of a game player, just have a few old ones lying around some of which have 'fixed locations'
I was accessing them via desktop shortcuts. All I did was create a Games Library, then I added the desktop shortcuts to that library via Windows Send To - which is just another way of running the «calibre "some silly game.lnk"» command. Then I deleted the desktop shortcuts - Yay.
I also add video and audio files to 'books'.
You can put just about any file type into a calibre book folder via the
Add files to selected book records option.
- The only types I can recall having problems with are
- some .exe files, I never figured out why some were OK and not others;
- shortcut (.lnk) files, If you try to put a shortcut file into calibre via Add files..., Windows will jump to do its job and action the shortcut :lol: So they must be added via the calibre command - which is simple if you pop a vanilla shortcut to the calibre.exe into your Send To folder.
- I tend to use the Send To method more than the Add files... method, it does mean that I sometimes have to merge what I just sent with an existing 'book' - but I find that easier than fiddling around with the Add files... option and the Windows open file dialogue.
The only 'problem' with all that, is that is that I use the Author and Title columns for other things - e.g. my journal library has the journal name as the Author and the journal date/issue number etc as the Title. I don't have a problem with that, but I appreciate some people wouldn't like it. If I had everything in a single library then I probably wouldn't like it either.
The only real annoyance is that I have to change the
author_sort_copy_method tweak for different libraries, I should find a way to automate that or at least popup a reminder.
BR