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Originally Posted by davidfor
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I had seen that before. It provides a workaround, which is not very tenable when you have tens of thousands of ebooks, and effectively says that discussing the design philosophies is off the table.
The FAQ claims "By managing books in its own directory structure of Author -> Title -> Book files, calibre is able to achieve a high level of reliability and standardization."
The questions I have are:
* What reliability improvements have been achieved?
* How were those measured?
* What standardization is Calibre attempting to meet?
Without know the answers to those questions, it is hard to determine whether Calibre is undertaking too much work during certain kinds of metadata updates. It certainly feels slower than I'd expect.
For example, renaming an author often takes 8-12 seconds to complete per ebook. I store my photos on the same volume, and updating an IPTC field with LightRoom takes less than a second.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
And my take has always been that it is a lot easier for calibre to do it this way.
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I don't disagree; a GUI for bulk management is easier. Even for single entry updates, the Calibre GUI is much easier than unpacking an ebook's contents, making the desired change, and repacking the ebook.
It's the directory management effort that I'm unsure about.