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Originally Posted by stisev
Hello everyone,
I've been lurking for a long, long time, but finally decided to register and provide my 2 cents regarding calibre.
First of all, I just want to say 'thank you' to the author for all the effort he has put into it, for releasing it to the public for free, and for the frequent updates. Your software will truly become THE benchmark for all eBook management organization (if it's not already).
So, what's with the title? I just downloaded the latest [stable 0.5*] release of calibre and attempted to read some metadata for a bunch of my files. Calibre decided to rearrange ALL of the folders/naming structure of my eBooks, which (dare I say) annoyed me greatly, creating duplicate entries which took a little time to remove. I also noticed, the absolutely horrid directory structure calibre used. Good lord... Name of book/Author/-file.zip-. To make things worse, there is no way to change this behavior. Calibre is configurable in every other fashion I can think of except this:
http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/user_manual/faq.html#id23
That is why I have decided to "boycott" Calibre until the user the is given the choice. I hope the author considers these pleas.
Also to consider:
-Saving settings in .INI for portable mode. (I know about config dir option command via shortcut)
-Allowing to choose location of database/settings location. |
I too have found that I have no use for many of Calibre's configuration options, and that it is not configurable in ways that are truly useful such as sorting by author's name in the way the name is displayed. I appreciate that a lot of work has gone into this app and that it is free. But I think I'm going to wait until a version that is ready for prime time. That way I can save myself some agita.