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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
Why create a directory for each book? It makes the management MUCH more difficult if you want to do anything outside Calibre.
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Because each book can have multiple formats. You can have a book with a .pdf, .lit, .mobi, .epub etc. Putting those all in the same folder makes sense and is more organized than just dumping them all into a single folder for the author.
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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
- It transfers books to the reader, but the software provided with the Reader already does that with preformatting.
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This is only a valid statement for a Sony using an LRF/LRX file. It doesn't apply to PDF, ePub, txt, etc.
It also modifies the metadata in the ebook file to match your edited metadata which the Sony library software (that does pre-index LRF/LRX books does) doesn't do.
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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
- It manages books but not in a good way (each book has its own dir, that is a WASTE). I manage my own book in directories by author. Why would I duplicate my collection with Calibre? It just does not make any sense. There are no options to change this.
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It's not a "WASTE". If you want to mange your ebooks files using Windows Explorer or Finder, go for it. Of course, you can't see or edit the metadata. You can't put in a summary. You can't tag the ebooks. You can't search them with metadata just on the file name. You can't convert them with a simple click of a button. Do you really think gaining all those features is a waste?
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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
Instead of solving these glaring problems, the author is content on adding features that are pretty useless, like emailing ebooks to your Reader. Why would I want to do that???
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Consider that the author is writing this program for himself, not for you. Then he shares it and helps a lot of people with it out of the goodness of his heart. He also has accepted patches for stuff that he said weren't important to him.
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Originally Posted by BlackVoid
So what is the real use of it?
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Hey, if you don't like it, don't use it... or submit a patch so it works more the way you want it to.
BOB