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Old 08-25-2009, 10:34 AM   #128
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
Since most people manage to sort their library of paper books and find them I do not see why it should be harder for ebooks. And for a folder sorted structure you can always use find or some other command line tool to find the book if you happen to forget were you put it.

Also a library of book you usually want to have distributed on a lot of computers.
You could use DropBox. Or you could stick both Calibre and the library on a USB key. There are many other choices. For my particular uses, I've never needed to access the files directly in the file system rather than through Calibre. Your mileage may vary.

My approach is to treat the file structure maintained by Calibre as an opaque database, and to use Calibre itself for finding books and loading them onto my various readers. When my wife and I need the books on another machine, we simply blast the entire structure to the other machine (optimizing, of course, via rsync or SuperDuper or some other such utility). Works fine.

Meanwhile, the structure used by Calibre plays nicely with TimeMachine which makes it easy to get backups without repeatedly backing up a single ever-growing database (as with the original version that stored all book in the database itself).

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