[LadyKate]

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Thank you for this clarification, it does make sense. Maybe because I spend my working hours trying to convince people that they will get more of out of software if they work with it rather than against it

I'll give this a try. Grudgingly, because what I really want from Calibre is to convert my books, not to manage them. But since I don't have much of a choice (looks like Calibre won't convert my books unless I add them to the library first, or unless I use command line, which I won't), I might as well try and make some use of it.

I downloaded the latest version of Calibre and found that I can adjust the preferences so that it doesn't create too many files or folders when I use the "save to disk" function. I guess I can live with that. At least it will probably be a bit easier than deleting all my books from the library after converting them

Thanks again for the useful input

Actually, you can always add the books you want to convert, convert and save them, then delete them in calibre.

I did that for a few months until the management of my ebooks by Calibre stated to make sense to me.

I had been rather anal about the way I organized my books.

Now I have my calibre library, a mirrored backup of that library on an external drive (or two), and a "pass to my reader" directory of books saved from calibre with metadata updated and names changed to the format I prefer on my tablet.