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Cybercrawler · 06-22-2015, 10:38 AM

I think that everyone is missing the point, I would be be inclined to agree with the Calibre advocates if not for a few things.

1.) Calibre is database only in the since that it is tracking information on the metadata. Not in the traditional since of single file DB Storage, IE SQL or others.

2.) It is storing everything in a file system!!!

The fact is that the books are files and there is not going to be a way around that until Calibre ingests the files that are given to it and holds it in a structured data format. All that Calibre is doing is taking the files that I give it copying them to a second directory adding a metadata file and covers. Don't get me wrong I love the program. But it is really hard to say that it is not a file organizing system as well when this is the difference of two books.

Me - Books\A\Allston, Aaron\Fate of the Jedi [4] - Backlash - (2010)\Fate of the Jedi [4] - Backlash - (2010).epub

Calibre - CalibreBooks\Aaron Allston\Backlash (1591)\Backlash - Aaron Allston.epub

I would love to either keep my structure or add the calibre ID to my structure.

I just don't understand why you can not select the database storage format at install and use the variables that are user selected to create the file structure.
Think of programs like
Plex
Sonarr
Sickbeard
Headphones
all of these programs store the metadata of the media in a second smaller DB and leaves the file structure alone. There are some rules of course on how the data needs to be stored so that the scanners can scrape, but at least the file structure makes since.

I operate a ftp for my friends to grab media from me, And I am consistently asked why is the books the only media that is not organized correctly when they look for stuff and Movies, TV Shows, Comics, Music, Programs, Games, Documents are, and the answer always has been that is the way calibre stores it. And I know that Calibre is dealing with copies so I could have a section for them but storing 300 GB of epubs in 2 locations seem stupid when having a 300 MB or less DB linking to the 300GB of data would work.Would you except Plex making a copy of all of the movies and storing them in a second location so that it is organized in plex? All of the other collectors that I am using have the metadata DB on solid state with a NAS backend. This is not possible with Calibre.

I think that it makes since to re-engineer to stay relevant with the changes in storage capacities and technology that is being used in the home.

My opinion...
Again I am blunt but I do love the program, I love the device integration and the metadata scraping is great. Please do not give up everyone you have a good base. Thank you

06-22-2015, 10:38 AM	#125
Cybercrawler Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2015 Device: Tablet, Nook Color	I think that it is a matter of structure I think that everyone is missing the point, I would be be inclined to agree with the Calibre advocates if not for a few things. 1.) Calibre is database only in the since that it is tracking information on the metadata. Not in the traditional since of single file DB Storage, IE SQL or others. 2.) It is storing everything in a file system!!! The fact is that the books are files and there is not going to be a way around that until Calibre ingests the files that are given to it and holds it in a structured data format. All that Calibre is doing is taking the files that I give it copying them to a second directory adding a metadata file and covers. Don't get me wrong I love the program. But it is really hard to say that it is not a file organizing system as well when this is the difference of two books. Me - Books\A\Allston, Aaron\Fate of the Jedi [4] - Backlash - (2010)\Fate of the Jedi [4] - Backlash - (2010).epub Calibre - CalibreBooks\Aaron Allston\Backlash (1591)\Backlash - Aaron Allston.epub I would love to either keep my structure or add the calibre ID to my structure. I just don't understand why you can not select the database storage format at install and use the variables that are user selected to create the file structure. Think of programs like Plex Sonarr Sickbeard Headphones all of these programs store the metadata of the media in a second smaller DB and leaves the file structure alone. There are some rules of course on how the data needs to be stored so that the scanners can scrape, but at least the file structure makes since. I operate a ftp for my friends to grab media from me, And I am consistently asked why is the books the only media that is not organized correctly when they look for stuff and Movies, TV Shows, Comics, Music, Programs, Games, Documents are, and the answer always has been that is the way calibre stores it. And I know that Calibre is dealing with copies so I could have a section for them but storing 300 GB of epubs in 2 locations seem stupid when having a 300 MB or less DB linking to the 300GB of data would work.Would you except Plex making a copy of all of the movies and storing them in a second location so that it is organized in plex? All of the other collectors that I am using have the metadata DB on solid state with a NAS backend. This is not possible with Calibre. I think that it makes since to re-engineer to stay relevant with the changes in storage capacities and technology that is being used in the home. My opinion... Again I am blunt but I do love the program, I love the device integration and the metadata scraping is great. Please do not give up everyone you have a good base. Thank you