[varaonaid]

Hello,

I've been working on getting to know Calibre a bit better and found the very interesting feature that allows one to save books to disk in their choice of format and layout. This struck me as an important feature yet I meant sure of how one might use it. Is it a typical way of backing up the library? I thought that was done by copying the Calibre Library folder.

Could anyone please share some ways that one might use this? If I should be using it to back up or something, please let me know. Thanks so much!

EDIT: In thinking about this, is it possible to use a template, as described in the help section, to specify the filenames of the ebooks during export. Then exporting these named ebook files to a sensible folder hierarchy. Once that's completed, using the add books feature to add these files again to a new library (having either started a new one or backed up and deleted the contents of the old). The help section said of the save to disk feature "Saved books can be re-imported to the library without any loss of information by using the Add books action." I had read that in theory, Calibre can rename your actual files but I've not yet come across how to do that and this seemed like a good possibility. Is this correct or am I crazy? (Or both.)