Thread: Including series name in title? (books and comics)
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Old 08-14-2022, 08:18 PM   #3
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The folder and file names within a calibre library are arbitrary, the value in basing them on author names and titles (after Ascii-izing and truncation) is to make them comprehensible to the user should they stop using calibre. They could equally be the library database author and book table row numbers - e.g. Books/23/854/854-23.epub.

If you add a book that uses a non Latin alphabet in the author name and title (e.g. Cyrillic or Chinese) it gets transliterated to Latin, Ascii-ized and if necessary truncated -- e.g.:

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