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Originally Posted by ephestione
I am not a smart man I suppose :'(
How is someone even supposed to know that the Amazon device with good reviews all around he's about to buy does not, and will not, have any entry-level-dont-even-need-to-ask sort by filename feature that he will need years in the future when he'll copy over a collection of neatly named yet tag-less books?
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I would be tempted to suggest using calibre and importing the books with "set metadata from filename" and a template. Update the metadata into the ebooks and away you go.
And yes, I get a laugh out of people who worry about the filenames and not the embedded metadata when it comes to ebooks. I download ebooks from Kobo and the filenames look like GUIDs (abe6e8a9-a697-44f0-9ee9-5eaaafb340d9-epub-24815bd7-efef-4f68-8afa-ed111a911de2.epub as an example) and from Amazon where the filenames look like B08CSBGDQB_EBOK.azw. Yet there are few issues with reading the metadata to get the title and author and for epub3 ebooks, the series name and index.
I got bored with using filenames quite a few decades back. You may enjoy creating convoluted directory structures with links (hard, soft, sym, your choice) to allow books to exist in multiple spots without needing multiple physical copies but after a few decades, you realize that easier solutions exist. I went with a homebrewed database back in the 90's originally using FoxPro. It's been a decade since I moved from my homebrewed solution to calibre, a move which I have rarely regretted.