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Originally Posted by DNSB
Out of curiosity, which file system are you running? I picked that book as a horrible example since the author name string alone totals to well over 255 bytes with the total file name clocking in at 682 characters. Other than ReiserFS, most Linux FS come out of the box ( well, out of limits.h  ) with a 255 character filename limit.
And yes, a good chunk of both my books and my wife's books are anthologies with multiple authors.
Most excellently. The book as packaged came with the author names neatly listed so no cleaning was needed. And yes, my Kobos will search for any of the authors. BTW, the prepackaging of the author names was done by the original publisher. The only updating I did was the cover image and moving the subtitle to a subtitle field.
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With 12K+ ebooks currently in my library, a directory structure is not a solution I would care to spend time on.
I tried other software before switching to calibre. When my library expanded to having more than 1000 books, calibre was simply the best solution I could find, at that time, for storing and managing my ebooks. Considering that at that time, many commercial epubs had metadata and formatting that could be kindly described as crap, calibre and Sigil were tools I made very heavy use of for cleaning up metadata and editing styles to make reading an ebook a much more enjoyable experience.
Over the more than a decade that I've been using calibre and Sigil, they still remain at the top of my most used software list. |
I'm using android, and I do not know how it would handles a filename of that length, or what it would do. Either throw an error or truncate it I guess. I see your use case is different to mine. Maintaining a very large library with many anthologies is not something I do. Also, it sounds like you, and many people on this forum, maintain a large library. I am more the type that shoved books in boxes, then rifled through. I still do this, but with folders and files searches.