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Originally Posted by frabjous
You know, you can skip calibre's GUI altogether and just use the many and rich command line tools calibre comes with. Then you can keep your files in whatever directories you like and still get almost all the power calibre offers. Heck, you could write your own GUI that served as a wrapper for calling those tools in your own way. (And it wouldn't need to be written in python.)
I use ebook-convert, ebook-meta and pdfmanipulate several times a week. But I almost never fire up calibre's GUI, and definitely don't keep my files in its Library folders. Used in this way, calibre is already more flexible than you may realize.
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I was actually thinking about using it that way and then writing something quick and dirty in Powershell to create a GUI just to keep track of their status. In my tests, invoking each of those commands was pretty slow, more than likely because (I'm assuming) of using py2exe and the fact that it has to extract everything needed, including python. Calibre seems to open slow as well, but that's just a one time thing when you load it the first time. You seem to pay that penalty every time you invoke the command line programs.
I actually like the library and I don't really need separate file system folders... just an option to quickly organize. If I went the custom GUI route, I'd still want to use calibre's library, and waiting for and parsing it's output every time I'd need to collect that information again would make things too slow.
I'm still planning on writing something up, but I just haven't had the time yet.