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Specifically, is there any reason I should check "Use calibre file names?" in preferences which automatically adds the book number to the file name versus simply using the default and simple Title-Author?

The reason I ask is that I just discovered there is a lot of inconsistency in the file names among my 3 android devices -- and even within one device -- with maybe a third of the tiles just having the title-author while the rest had an added book number. This caused some failures when trying to sync bookmarks and reading positions between devices in Moon Reader. Some titles synced perfectly while others not at all.

So, I have to fix these inconsistencies on all 3 devices. But before I spend a lot of time doing it, I want to make sure I am not choosing the option which could lead to more problems in the future.

I am leaning toward the simple default title-author convention. The only potential pitfall I see to that is if there are two books with the same exact title-author, but I am pretty careful about keeping duplicate titles out of my main calibre library.

The main reason I am leaning toward taking out the book numbers from the file names is because sometimes I relocate magazine titles to different calibre libraries where they then get a new book number. In such cases, if I reimport a title into CC on one device, it would not sync in Moon Reader with the same title on another device that was imported when the title was in the previous calibre library. The two titles would have different book numbers.

Is there any potential pitfall I should know about before changing everything to just Title-Author?

--Pat