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Originally Posted by FauDrei
After all I've read/learned in past few days - I am not so sure this goal would be easy to maintain.
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Sure wouldn't be, as others have made clear. And you would be targeting another can of worms - the operating and file systems used on the Kobo, which I would regard as proprietary to Rakuten.
The key issue is that calibre is not a file system centric application, it's a database centric application. The author and book sub-folders exist for efficiency reasons; they avoid having to use blobs for format files, they provide storage for readily displayable cover images, and a place to store database recovery data.
As an experiment try this:
- stop calibre;
- take a copy of a calibre library folder e.g. MyLibrary to TestLibrary;
- delete all the author sub-folders from TestLibrary;
- start calibre and use the Library->Switch/create library... tool to access TestLibrary.
The book list should look familiar, however the book details panel (right sidebar) won't have any covers or format files.
BR