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Originally Posted by Zem
11 gigs and growing (lots of PDFs). There's no way I'm doubling that  . But it is also one of the reasons I am keen on calibre's conversion abilities. |
That's a bit less than one U.S. dollar at current HD storage prices. I have single movies that take 5 times that space.
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[*]if "black boxing" a book directory is not a problem, and you have only calibre interacting with that directory, then you will find calibre useful. [*]If, however, "black boxing" a directory is a problem, because, for example, you have other programs interacting with that directory (or you have an academic's instinctive dislike of other people moving your books around  ), then calibre is probably not for you (at least for that directory).
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You have the mindset that the books are in the directory and you might want to directly interact with them. For example, you probably think of the books in Calibre's library folder as having a name.
Calibre, however, was constructed with the premise that the books are in the database and you won't interact with them directly inside the database. Calibre doesn't think of the books as having a "name." They get a name only when you ask for them to be saved to disk or device. The name they get is controlled by you in the preferences. Thus, Calibre feels free to move books around, change the references it uses to locate the book (folder and filenames), etc. What it never, ever, does is change the book title or the author name or the publish date or the ISBN, or any of the other metadata items associated with a book. The metadata is yours, the books are in Calibre's database until you ask for one to be saved to disk/device with your specified name.
Of course, your mindset is quite reasonable, and, in fact, you
can access the books directly if you are careful, you just can't do it in ways that conflict with how Calibre is designed.