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Originally Posted by davidfor
There are no issue with using directories. In calibre, I use the template:
Code:
{library}/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}
Which uses a directory for each of my calibre libraries and then a subdirectory for each author. And each book uses the title and author for the file name. The library name is there simply to reduce the number of directories in the root. |
With the amount of books the OP has in the device, DB size is gonna be a problem, because for each kepub the db stores several entries. If the title and author are in each of them, you are facing a several GB DB size. With epub it won't be as bad, but it will still be big.
I also have a large microSD card and have the Kobo driver configured with the template
Code:
Books/{author_sort:shorten(1,,0)}{title:shorten(1,,0)}/{id}
This puts every book under /Books and a directory named after the first letter of the book and the title. I did that because I didn't want a folder with thousands of files. The actual kepub file is named after its ID in Calibre DB.
This slims DB a lot, and even with that it is not slim. It has a downside, which is that is that you won't be able to match the kepub file with the book just by looking at the file name and you'll depend on Calibre to manage the books is the device.