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Originally Posted by marp68

2. Similar question about if it's possible to to have the last name first in the author folder name in the calibre library? This is how I have specified the names to be written when sending the book to the Kobo device. It's easier to find a book when sorting the folders.

3. Curious question. Is there any particular reason for calibre to write the book's file name as "title" - "author"? Why not "author" - "title". And why not language specific characters, like åäö, in the file name?

@marp68 - the answers to 2, 3, are in this subforum sticky ==>> Want to change folder structure or file names in the Calibre library?

Bottom line - the structure and names of the folders and files in a calibre folder are determined internally - and that's not going to change. The heart of a calibre library is its database - metadata.db.

Originally Posted by marp68

4. Must one always use the Add book function to update the library with new books. Is it not possble to place the book directly in the calibre library folder and then update the library metadata about what's in the library folder? I wanted to copy some books from the library on one computer to a library on another computer and then just update the calibre library user interface with the new books. But it seemed that I had to enter every book folder and use the add button. Then a new copy of the book was created beside the one copied from the other computer.

If you use the Add Book->Automatic Adding feature you can add books without using the add books dialogue windows.

You can add books by dragging the file from your file manager and dropping it into the book list

If you're using Windows you can put a shortcut to calibre.exe into the Send To folder and use right click->Send To->calibre to add books.

BR