[Kristo]

Nerys, upon the new install, be sure to designate the library to /program files/calibre2/Library. I think this may be helpful to you. This is how mine is set up.

My old library, the uncalibrized books, are still in /My Documents/My Anthenaeum/blah/blahblah. They are not altered in anyway. When I add books to calibre, calibre simply creates its own copy and stores it out of sight. Calibres library will be altered in real time but your library will just sit and wait patiently until something wants to know what its got.

Perhaps you could set up calibre to convert all the documents as you add them. That way, the calibre library won't be full of duplicate document that are found in your original library. This will still allow you to 'quick search' the calibre library from the start menu and drag 'n drop onto the card.

I don't think you have been out of line nor do I think you have been complaining, but rather, you have been defending your original query and subsequently, the precise way you utilize your library. Your explanation of how you would like to implement calibre didn't encompass much of calibre's phenomenal features so you were introduced to some features and both sides had failed to fully communicate their positions/system strengths.

Without addressing the ltf thing(what is this? I don't know.), I would like to see if I understand a possible utilization of calibre for you.

Place calibres library somewhere pertaining to system use rather than end user perusing, along the lines of /program files/calibre.
As needed, enter books into calibre but do the whole folder pertaining to that author. Sooner than never you will have a decent amount of quality ebooks within the calibre library.
As this collection grows you will find more and more useful elements of calibre. For instance having your library accessible from anywhere in the world and lets not forget that calibre will be growing at the same time.
You will still be dragging and dropping from the search results so that won't change and the integrity of your current library won't be altered so nothing lost there either.
You will learn a few tricks that will improve your utilization of calibre and I am sure by the end of summer you will find nearly all of calibres features instrumental in the way you use your reader—or I'm wrong and you have lost nothing more than time and the respect for whats-his-name.

That's all I've got to say about that.

Edit: Consider less capslocks. I feel like I'm being yelled at in an email from a great aunt-somebody. No intention to insult you, just say'n is all.