[nerys]

Hmm might be easier to just run news for caliber on a separate machine.

Let me summarize for you Kovidgoyal

I have a selection of over 22,000 ebooks on my external drive.

If you actually think I am going to spend what would likely consume the next 2 years of my available free time "REORGANIZING" all of those books with all the metadata and structure that calibre uses. 2 years of my LIFE (assuming 4-5 hours a week)

this is assuming 90 seconds and NO conversion of formatting. Since I am less than thrilled with how calibre converts the text many of the books require me to first rip to txt and input the proper structure so calibre does not butcher it (though from what you tell me this is not calibre but a limitation of the LRF format which is fine) take that 90 seconds and make it 250+ seconds or 4-5 YEARS of my life.

Well your delusional. Sorry. Since this is the way the books "CAME" to me organized it is the way they will stay organized. When I add new books it is logical to DO those books in the same manner as the 22,000 I already have rather than make a SECOND library completely difference from the first.

I just thought it would be nice to be able to do things a bit more efficiently and I was hoping maybe their was some options I did not see that might allow me to do this.

I think Calibre is a truly awesome program. NO complaints from me on that side of things. but its by no means perfect. If requests and constructive criticism is not compatible with your ego by all means let me know and I will never ask another question about it again.

I will still appreciate the excellent if less than perfect software. It BY FAR the most convenient method I have found to generate lrf's for my sony reader with the cover art.

if I did not want the cover art I would just toss txt files onto the reader. It seems to read those just fine.