first off this program is excellent for converting to and from diff formats all though its vary slow at it it does a good job although why it doesn't do TO html is a wonder
butt:
Why doesn’t calibre let me store books in my own directory structure?
The whole point of calibre‘s library management features is that they provide an interface for locating books that is much more efficient than any possible directory scheme you could come up with for your collection. Indeed, once you become comfortable using calibre‘s interface to find, sort and browse your collection, you wont ever feel the need to hunt through the files on your disk to find a book again. By managing books in its own directory structure of Author -> Title -> Book files, calibre is able to achieve a high level of reliability and standardization.
the directory structure it uses is worse then useless and dangerous as it removes info from the file name
i dont understand why it has to rename the files at all
ie it made \QuietSilence\Desktop\Smith, E E Doc - Lensman 01 - Triplanetary (2.1) [html,gif]\
to
\QuietSilence\My Documents\calibre\E. E. 'Doc' Smith\Triplanetary (6)\Triplanetary - E. E. 'Doc' Smith.zip
and totally lost the series info in the file name as well as the version info (thats the (v2.1) part for those of you who dont know it)
not to mention it made title first then author and put last name last instead of first for the actual file name
what is the point of having a title dir ? the title is all ready in the file name.
i can see some peps wanting a author dir but i prefer just having dirs for each letter of the alphabet of the author name
ie D:\My Books\S\Smith, E E Doc - Lensman 01 - Triplanetary (2.1) [html,gif].rar (BTW the files in side of this rar are a dir called files full of js style.css and some gifs of arrows for navigation of the html and in root the html and the cover a gif in this case)
though i can live with author name instead its seems to be a wast of dirs
also it killed all js in the html and what is the deal with the (6) added to title dir?
i can live with the dir structure it self if i have too though i don't want to but renaming the file name it self is going too far
and there is a reason for the standard file naming convention that has been out for at least 10 years now and i know this because i am part of the group that came up with it. there is a lot of consideration gone in to it not limited to but including geting ebooks to sort properly, letting you know how much proofing has gone in to it (the vertion #) , and letting you know what format the file is in with out opening the rar now i not saying it has to be exactly like the standard. we built user preferences in to it ie you can use ether last name first or first name first but the info and the order that it is in the file name is important
i see you do use the standard space-space to separate the author a title why not use the rest of the standard?
ya ya i know it dosnt mess up the original file but who wants to maintain 2 dir structures for there ebooks ?
as it is now its a useless dir structure which makes it a bad ebook manager
the point of a good ebook manager is to let the user decide on the dir and file naming conventions that they need
to recant its a great format converter though a bit slow it does a great job much better then most format converters
but its not up to snuff yet as a ebook manager
please don't take this as a flame as it is not interned to be i use it all the time i just want it to be better as a manager
and i am sure it can be
thanx to the coder for a excellent format converter
ps ill post the standard ebook nameing format in next post for any who are interested also a link to a app to help rename according to the standard format