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Originally Posted by cadele
You are very organised!
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Thanks
All of my personal files are organised as perfectly as humanly possible, be they e-books, music, or documents. My paper administration, on the other hand...
*shudders*
I've been thinking to start scanning my paper administration as soon as it comes in, and just stick the real documents into an organizer, one after another. The digital versions will be much faster to find if I ever need them.
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I am intrigued as to why you keep an unDRMEd original on your hard drive separate to Calibre - I wonder if I should be doing this.
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Why? No reason, really. I could just as well remove all Calibre data from the e-books using the Modify EPUB plugin, and then export the entire library. I just like the idea of having the original file on hand if I ever need it. It doesn't take space enough to worry about.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
That isn't an unmodified original. Save-to-disk (by default) updates metadata in the saved copy. Personally, I don't see why it is needed. Metadata updates are non-lossy, and anyway if you use snapshotted backups you can always revert to the first version.
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I think this is a bit of a smartass remark. Obviously some bytes will have changed in the exported file, be it only some calibre stuff that's inserted into the OPF-file. I don't really care about that. With "unmodified original", I mean a book that has not had it's layout or CSS changed, didn't get a new cover or metadata updates, that sort of thing.
Also, I don't use snapshot backups. I want only complete, file-based backups that I can access on any computer, on any operating system, without using any special programs.