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Originally Posted by alternety
Meaningful documentation must not include having to go to a forum to understand basic operations. Please expend some of the volunteer effort to making understandable and detailed documentation.
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My initial response was:
I think you have a basic misconception of calibre's basic architecture - at its core it has a database (metadata.db in the library folder), the presence of the author and book title folders is merely a convenient place to store format files (.EPUB, .PDF, .TXT etc), the book cover images (cover.jpg) and database backup files (metadata.opf).
When you sort on a column in calibre you are not sorting files, you are sorting a column in an in-memory database that derives from an SQLite database (metadata.db), similar to sorting a spreadsheet by a column in Excel , or sorting a Table by a column in Word.
The browser tree on the left is not a file system tree, it is a tree of database columns.
But when I look back at your previous posts, I think you must already know most of this, in one of them you claimed there was no metadata.db file, and then there was.
BTW - telling volunteers how they ought spend their time is unlikely to elicit a friendly response from them.
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Originally Posted by intentional sarcasm
And regarding application jargon in the User manual, calibre is in good company, this is a link to the Word 2013 Quickstart Guide
Quick Access Toolbar ? Maybe it's something to do with the MS Access database application. Ribbon Tabs ? Good idea I need to keep tabs on which drawer I keep my typewriter ribbons, Dialog Box Launchers? It talks too? |
I suggest you watch these videos to get a handle on calibre and its usage ==>>
Video Tutorials
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