[LadyKate]

Originally Posted by adrenaline

Hello

I've been using Calibre for a while and it's been phenomenal.

When I drag and drop PDF and ePub files to Calibre, this is how Calibre names the file :

"Book Title" - "Author"

For eg: Salty Snacks - Cynthia Nims.epub

under C:\Users\John\Documents\Calibre Library\Cynthia Nims\Salty Snacks (42)

I was wondering if there's a way that I could set Calibre to just use the Book Title to name the book. I organize books in different folders and I have to manually remove the Author name every time (to decrease the number of chars).

I prefer the file name to be just Salty Snacks.epub

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

To answer the original question, if you are using Calibre as your library management system and need to "rename" your pdf files in order to use them on another system the best way is to have your Calibre library as one separate entity and to use the "save to disk" option to save your epubs, or pdf's or whatever (choose the save a specific format option) to save to a temporary library to copy to the device you desire.

While there is an option to output to a device many like me prefer to save to an sd card for use on their devices.

You can format the name under preferences -> saving books to disk. If you just want the title you can indicate that and save the book that way.

For instance, I save my books that I want to take to my android using
{author_sort:sublist(0,3,&)}/{series}{series_index:0>5.2f| | - }{title} - {authors:sublist(0,3, & )}

This puts them in a folder with the author name and the book is named the series, series number and title followed by author.

Use {author_sort:sublist(0,3,&)}/{series}{series_index:0>5.2f| | - }{title} to save to a folder with the author name and the book named series, series number title. If there is no series it is just the title.