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Originally Posted by cewong2
Aside from Calibre to be a library, I'm wondering if anyone might know of any tools (preferable with a GUI as opposed to command line) which could help rename ebook files. I have books with Asian Character names, and as much as I like Calibre as an organizational system, I do like to have the files organized as well without the software. But Calibre likes to rename it into latin characters, and even at that it's wrong sometimes. What I'd like to try and find is a tool that could read the meta data, and pull the Asian Character name and use that as part of the file name.
I found this project: https github com/na--/ebook-tools/ (not sure if I can post links) that did it as a bash script, but I don't know if it has support for unicode names, as I didn't try it.
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The reason for calibre's filename conversion is to allow the maximum compatibility across operating systems. Since calibre will save to disk or send to device with filenames including CJK glyphs, why worry about how they are stored in calibre's library. In other words, stop peeking under calibre's skirts and treat it as a black box that inputs and outputs books.