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Old 09-02-2014, 11:30 AM   #5
Don Edwards
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
Would you rather be left with a bunch of folders that have names that are meaningful (even if stripped of diacritics and sometimes truncated) such as

Code:
MyLibrary\Daniel Defoe\Robinson Crusoe (86)\Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe.epub
or something like

Code:
abd51a3b-b980-4c04-9680-dac5162026f7\6d592674-b5cd-43bb-9390-8a00c9b808b4\34e13190-0994-4445-abc8-9b37d840e37d.epub
I would rather be left with a single folder containing all the ebooks, with whatever filenames their source(s) might have stuck on them. This is what the Nook software requires for books from B&N (and it can't hardly find any other books), and the much-superior Mantano Reader software simply does not care where the books are stored or what the filenames are as long as they aren't moved or renamed. Both store their metadata in a database (not compatible, of course).

The best way to put it may be that Calibre is a library controller where I want it to be a library cataloguer.

Unfortunately, the firm word is that this is not going to happen. Which means that most of what I want Calibre for just cannot be done with Calibre, and there's no point in even letting the program see the 99.9% of my ebook library that I didn't write myself. I'd end up with two non-synchronizable copies of my library, which would be a real mess. And I'm still looking for a good e-reader program for Windows.

Oh well, that's life. The people who actually write the software get the final say on how it works. I've written quite a bit of software and understand that it MUST be that way - even when I disagree with their decision.

And I can still use Calibre for file-format conversions.

Last edited by Don Edwards; 09-02-2014 at 11:51 AM.
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