Thread: Pros & Cons of using the Calibre GUI
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Old 08-04-2018, 04:30 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by sealbeater View Post
I would just go "cd library ; find . -name "$series" | parallel cp -rv {} /mnt/bookreader"
I think I would be faster than you.
Yes, you would be faster. But Calibre is *much* more powerful than that.
With Calibre you can combine various search criteria, use regular expressions, ask Calibre to download the metadata for the book from the net, find duplicates using fuzzy soundex search ...

I have been using Calibre as a conversion tool too. Then I started to use it to manage my books and never looked back.
The main GUI interface is customizable and you can also use powerful commandline tools installed with Calibre.

By the way ... ever since I got Internet connection at home (at about 2002) I have been running my main desktop on FreeBSD and then Linux. I was dualbooting before that.
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