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Originally Posted by marp68
Hi
When I send a book from calibre to the device, it creates a folder with the author name (family name, surname) and then only one book file inside the folder.
But in calibre the book is stored in a folder with author named the opposite (surname, family name) and inside the folder there are the book file, the metadata file and the cover.
So why three file in calibre library and only one in the device? And why different naming convention?
So sending with calibre or manually moving the books results in different organizing. Why does not calibre just copy and send as is in the calibre library?
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The metadata information is stored in the database on your Kobo ereader, the covers are parsed and stored with rather strange names in their own directories (start at .kobo-images on the internal storage, koboExtStorage/images-cache on the external storage). When you send the ebooks to the Kobo, the directory and path is generated from the save to device preferences (my setting is eLibrary/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors} ) while in the Calibre library, the author name (normally firstname lastname) is used.
In either case, I really don't care what the directory structure is since I use the Calibre GUI with it's search and sort capability on one hand and the Kobo's search capability on the other. Modifying Calibre's library structure is not supported and is "NOT A GOOD IDEA". Changing the template for the save to device is supported and since you don't see the directory structure while using the Kobo ereader, it doesn't seem to have any adverse effects. OTOH, it doesn't seem to have any benefits.