[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Vortex

Thanks, I've tried Calibre many times over the years and I love it's ability to convert all formats but I dont like the rest. The majority of my books are old and not in modern ebook formats and dont have complete meta data so Calibre just makes a mess of it. I have found the folder system works best for me and I use the 'Everything' search software to find whatever books I want from within it.

If you have valid title and author metadata in the filename, then just set calibre to use the filename for metadata when Adding Books. It will totally ignore all metadata within the book. You can then download metadata from the internet based on the available metadata (to get the best match) or just use the filename metadata, as you already are, but with the advantage of tagging etc.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

It can be set to read metadata from the filename rather than from the metadata fields within the book.