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Originally Posted by BetterRed
What happens if you close calibre and double click an epub in the file manager - does calibre start and try to add the book or does something else happen, if so what? BR
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If Calibre is closed when I right-click on an epub in the file manager it starts and tries to add the book i.e. same behavior as when it's already open.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Could you post a screen shot of what you get when you right click an epub in File Manager and select Open with. BR
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Done.
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Can you confirm the versions of Windows and Calibre are you using?
Why are you accessing the library book folders with your file manager?
BR
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v 3.48.0 desktop
Win 7 Pro 64 bit
The reason for using the file manager is simple but takes a lot of words to explain. It boils down to all sorts of convenience, access and speed things that Calibre doesn't have...
I have e-books sorted into two dozen folders for different topics and the folders also contain many other publications in non-e-book formats such as pdf. To me they're all just publications so they need to be all in the same folder regardless of file type, and I open them from there. I don't mind if some open with Calibre and others in the pdf reader or Word. Having the different file types in separate folders would be out of the question. Then I sometimes do tweaks like when a book fits in two different topics, I put the file in one folder and a shortcut to it in another. Or I have a book where the filename is the book's title but I also make a shortcut that gets renamed so the author is first.
Also, in the file manager I can do things at lightning speed such as: browse the folders, sort by date, size, etc, rename the files, move them from one folder to another, rename the folders, etc. I do these things a lot, say several times a week.
Not only that but with my file manager I can set up keyboard shortcuts so no matter which folder I'm in (in the entire computer), I can type ctrl-2 for example, and that will open up the History Books folder, ctrl-3 to jump to the Science Books folder etc. Finally, the file manager is virtually entirely controlled by the keyboard rather than the mouse, which I love because it's tons faster than a mouse or trackpad.