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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Some of your settings are not good for a newbie. Like your collections and where you send your eBooks. Both are not good. You create many subdirectories to send your eBooks to and you do not use the existing collections columns.
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Considering the only collection I use is "Finished"?
And yes, I create a subdirectory under the Elibrary directory when I send a new author (actually, a new author or the a new first author where multiple authors exist). So far I haven't had issues with path length other than a couple of books where the title was ridiculously long -- who the bleep needs a 314 character book title? Yes, I could put all my ebooks in the root of the exposed storage but I prefer my structure though I will admit that it was created by a newbie long before I even started using calibre.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Tags & Series are for collections and just a single subdirectory is all you need to send your eBooks to. For an inexperienced users, they could have all kinds of trouble with those settings if your settings are copied.
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Weird and wonderful. Why would I bother creating a collection based on series since a simple search will find the series?
As mentioned, I use one collection to keep track of finished books. For finding books, I use search which makes tags and collections of relatively little interest to me. I do use a subtitles column which more often than not is used to store series information for books that are in more than one series. Oddly, my Kobo seems to find that information searchable.
So tempting to say I create a subfolder under the Elibrary folder...
I hope that the OPs were helped by what I posted and that they were not hopelessly confused.