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Originally Posted by kaufman
1) It looks like the program is appending the Calibre book id to the book filename even when that feature is turned off. Or does "Use Book ID as filename" only use the ID?
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It uses the calibre unique id (UUID) as the filename. This isn't the relatively short number, but is instead a 36-character string that looks something like 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 (thanks, wikipedia). Using this string guarantees that the file name is identical whether the book was loaded from the content server or the wireless device, something that is useful if you are syncing reading positions between multiple devices. Of course, it does make the file names useless for manual browsing, but that shouldn't be necessary.
If that option isn't set then the file name for books sent via the wireless device connection is controlled in the file template calibre settings of the wireless device. For the content server the name is fixed at something like {title} - {author}; I don't remember exactly.
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2) The screen to change the book storage directory is a little odd. I wanted to move my book library to the external SD card, and I couldn't find a way to do it without manually entering the directory name. When I bring up the dialog box it shows "/storage/emulated/0" and there doesn't seem to be a way to move up the tree. I also think you might want to add a confirmation before you start moving the files in case someone click on the "(Use the Folder)" by accident. Otherwise, someone stupid (like me for example) might hit it by accident and start moving their books to the wrong folder.
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The problem is that there is no standard naming convention for SD cards, so we can't give a list of them. In addition, some SD cards are read-only, and so on. We decided early on not to attempt to deal with the issues.
That said, you could have entered "/" and then navigated down. I have changed the dialogs to (I hope) make that more obvious and to make a distinction between creating a folder and navigating to one. The "manual change" is now "change folder", and the path you enter must exist and be a folder. It is pre-filled with "/".
We will see if this is better.
