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Originally Posted by nerys
Hmm might be easier to just run news for caliber on a separate machine.
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That's easy to do.
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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)
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Metadata is optional. It's in
addition to what you have now. If you don't want that additional capability, don't use it. The only thing Calibre needs is author/title. If your books are well-named now or have valid internal metadata, Calibre will pick that info up automatically.
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I think Calibre is a truly awesome program.
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Agreed!
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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.
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Take a look at the bug tracker. There are thousands of bugs, enhancement requests and criticisms there, not to mention the thousands here. They are all dealt with quickly. AFAICT, Calibre will do everything you want it to do. You want multiple libraries - it does that in 4 different ways I can think of (command line, Wizard, Preferences and Tags). You want automatic deletion of old news - it's on page 1, lower right corner of the News dialog. You want the news to start with "00" - just modify the "title" of the news recipes.
Heck, you can even have the single file for news you asked for, but you'll have to modify/combine recipes to do that.
Unfortunately, I was probably too forceful in my comments trying to explain the advantages of tags and a single library. It's just that I hate to see others go down the same wrong road I went down. I now love tags, the content server and the way Calibre can offer up all my books and news over the internet whenever I want it, wherever I am. When I was in the hospital, my wife and I could pull copies of everything. If news was separated into another library, that would not have been possible.
You have stepped into the shoes of the user who started the "Thanks, but no thanks!" thread. He hated the way Calibre "organized" books, and like you, took a lot of friendly heat when he insisted that Calibre was organizing books poorly. Calibre doesn't do the organizing. It simply stores the books in a black box, and releases them with any name and in any folders the user wants. Months later that user finally saw the light. Perhaps Calibre will never meet your needs, but it's not for lack of trying, and you have to meet it halfway. You really will be glad you did.
Go (or stay) in peace.