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Originally Posted by Ashjuk
The problem is I can't just ignore it. Every time I see the mass of folders that Calibre creates it grates. Unfortunately I am 'old school' and can remember when I had a 10Mb hard disk and thought it was huge! Even though I now have two 2Tb disks in my machine I still like to keep things simple.
As I said I have tried to like Calibre, and I admit it is a very good program, but sadly I can't accept that it dictates a folder structure that I'm not happy with.
Perhaps I am very backwards when it comes to organising my library. To be honest I never use metadata but just pick a book to read by its file name.
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Add a custom icon to the calibre library folder so that it looks like a document. Think of it like a giant complex single file that stores all your books and metadata. Perhaps then you can ignore what's going on 'inside'.
I resisted calibre for a couple of years. It was a mistake. I love being able to quickly find all my books by an author, all the books in a series (even if by different authors), all the books I haven't read yet, all the books I bought in 2006, when I last read a particular book, how much I paid for the book and where I bought it from. (These last four via custom metadata columns.)
You are allowing habits from the time of very constrained storage to limit your use of your computer. This is not ideal.