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Originally Posted by Kryz-El
It's true, calibre does not mess up your books. IMO it messed up my collection, that was on a removeable drive and moved it all to the system drive. It uses what seems to me to be a cryptic filing system. It renamed files as well. ...
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All true - except the part about "no other software..."; iTunes does the exact same thing.
I don't care for the file system that Calibre uses either. But, Calibre needed a consistent method that the
program (not a thinking person) could use to know where everything is. It can't change now even IF they wanted to - it would screw up all the years of programming/plugins that went in to it.
However, there is a very easy, built-in to Calibre, option to solve this which I use regularly. It is called "Save to Disk". After you add all your metadata, covers, etc. to Calibre, just click on the "Preferences" button and then select "Saving Books to Disk" (see attachment). You can set Calibre to save your ebook with all the updated metadata, covers, etc. to the location of your choice, with the filename template of your choice. Once you have your preferences saved, just highlight the books you want to save and hit the "Save to Disk" icon to make a separate copy of your library to use as you see fit!
It's really quite nice. I have my filename template set to:
{author_sort} - {series} {series_index:0>2s|| - } {title}
which gives me something like:
Eddings, David - Belgariad 01 - Pawn of Prophecy.epub