MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - [Old Thread] Why doesn’t calibre let me store books in my own directory structure?

kovidgoyal · 04-04-2010, 09:51 AM

1) What's preventing you from making such a query using tags?

A hierarchical query for a > b > c is logically and functionally equivalent to a AND b AND c

2) So what?

3) If you have a structure but no metadata in files, then your metadata is in the structure. One of my goals in writing calibre is to discourage the use of filesystems to store metadata. I have explained why several times before and I'm not going to again.

4) That's what Save to Disk is for

5) No it's not. It was a design choice. Just look for old threads in this forum if ou care to read my rationale for this design choice. And calibre does a lot more than iTunes.

04-04-2010, 09:51 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,385 Karma: 27756918 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	1) What's preventing you from making such a query using tags? A hierarchical query for a > b > c is logically and functionally equivalent to a AND b AND c 2) So what? 3) If you have a structure but no metadata in files, then your metadata is in the structure. One of my goals in writing calibre is to discourage the use of filesystems to store metadata. I have explained why several times before and I'm not going to again. 4) That's what Save to Disk is for 5) No it's not. It was a design choice. Just look for old threads in this forum if ou care to read my rationale for this design choice. And calibre does a lot more than iTunes. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 04-04-2010 at 10:25 AM.