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Originally Posted by ficbot
I was taken aback at first by Calibre organizing all my stuff, but I really like it now and found the tags very easy to use.
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I just looked at my remembered searches:
Yesterday I wanted all my books that were not one of my wife's books, that I had not read and that did not have a text format.
Next I wanted all my naval fiction books that I hadn't read. I saved that search (thanks Chaley!)
I decided I wanted to see the naval fiction search books from above that didn't have text format or rtf, so I called up the first search and restricted it further with the second and rtf format.
Then I wanted all my books except the news books that didn't have a cover.
My wife did a search to see her books. There were too many, so she restricted by removing those she'd read and sorted by date to find the ones that she'd added in the last few months.
Then I wanted my computer technical books on html.
On two of these searches I wanted a subset of books found saved out with a name that had the series number first and saved inside a directory named by the series. One of my readers cuts off the end of the name, so I sometimes want the first part of the name to be the series number. I modified the save template.
You can't do all these searches if you just rely on the directory and filename. The flexibility of tags, the power of the searching system and the ability to rename on the fly are what I like about calibre.
Having said that, I do understand why you want a different directory and naming structure. You are used to going directly to the directory to get your books, and you'd like to keep on doing that. The problem is that different people want different structures and different filenames. Calibre isn't designed for direct access to your books via its book storage directories and it can't be changed to accommodate all the different ways people want their books organized even if the developer's wanted to make that change. The current design is too deeply embedded in the code.