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Old 04-09-2021, 05:36 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
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Calibre has a rigidly maintained structure (just read all the howls from folk who don't like it the way it is). Library/Author/Title (id)/<book>

'O'(pen), opens the folder where the book format resides (all formats for the book are in the same place, along with the cover image used in the Library (THE BOOK MAY CONTAIN A DIFFERENT IMAGE).

NOT TRIED but Save to Disc has options to STOP updating Metadata,file names... Have you played with those?


What happens if I select, say, twenty books and press ‘O’? (Is it going to open twenty different folders simultaneously?)

I did play about with the save options, but the difficulty is not knowing absolutely that some saved book sometime will not be altered.

I have brought some books into Calibre that were purchased. I want to keep them in their original form, as produced by the publisher. I don’t want Calibre to muck about with books that don’t need mucking about with unless I expressly choose to do that.

Perhaps Calibre is only trying to be helpful, but I don’t expect it by default to silently alter books without obtaining my permission to do so.

NB: I haven’t yet investigated this fully to determine what it is that Calibre is changing.
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