MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - [Old Thread] Why doesn’t calibre let me store books in my own directory structure?

cvlowe · 08-15-2014, 11:11 AM

I am reading through this thread and just a little confused-

People seem to think tiny amounts of files (11 or 60 GB) is some kind of problem.. You can buy a flash drive for less than $40 to store that much data. You can get a 2T USB hard drive for under $100 that will store 30X a tiny 60G library. If you're talking about academic reference materials that's the price of a couple books (assuming you buy them legitimately).

If you want to have some that sync via some external method to other computers, it's easy to create separate libraries. Right now, I'm using 3 libraries- one for books, one for computer related reference materials, and one for 'personal' info. I'll probably change things around a bit once I make some more progress in importing all of my stuff, but for now those 3 work for me. I'm still digging through my old "my documents" folder and moving files as I can update the metadata. Having a couple backups makes this process a little less scary- I can go back to the old "folder" system if I want.

I will admit, it's a bit difficult to give up my "folder" handicap/addiction and get used to the "metadata" based system Calibre uses. Even though I see the obvious benefits I'm so used to doing things the old way that it's a bit difficult to give up. Change is never easy....

Edit:
I just noticed this thread was necroed from 4 years ago, oops lol.. I think my points are still valid though- even 4 years ago, 60G wasn't a lot

08-15-2014, 11:11 AM	#45
cvlowe Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2014 Device: Calibre on laptop	I am reading through this thread and just a little confused- People seem to think tiny amounts of files (11 or 60 GB) is some kind of problem.. You can buy a flash drive for less than $40 to store that much data. You can get a 2T USB hard drive for under $100 that will store 30X a tiny 60G library. If you're talking about academic reference materials that's the price of a couple books (assuming you buy them legitimately). If you want to have some that sync via some external method to other computers, it's easy to create separate libraries. Right now, I'm using 3 libraries- one for books, one for computer related reference materials, and one for 'personal' info. I'll probably change things around a bit once I make some more progress in importing all of my stuff, but for now those 3 work for me. I'm still digging through my old "my documents" folder and moving files as I can update the metadata. Having a couple backups makes this process a little less scary- I can go back to the old "folder" system if I want. I will admit, it's a bit difficult to give up my "folder" handicap/addiction and get used to the "metadata" based system Calibre uses. Even though I see the obvious benefits I'm so used to doing things the old way that it's a bit difficult to give up. Change is never easy.... Edit: I just noticed this thread was necroed from 4 years ago, oops lol.. I think my points are still valid though- even 4 years ago, 60G wasn't a lot Last edited by cvlowe; 08-15-2014 at 11:19 AM.