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Originally Posted by citac
Also, what exactly is the difference with all these ways of sending to disk? There are four; Save to Disk, Save to disk in a single directory, Save only EPUB format to disk, and Save single format to disk, with a long list of formats.
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They are useful, but sometimes confusing. Kovid works very very hard to make the interface simple ..... but no simpler than is needed to provide all the power sophisticated users need/want.
The Save to Disk saves all your formats and the metadata (in an .opf file) and the .jpg cover image. It saves the books in folders named the way you specify with file names created the way you specify. All that "specifying" is done on the Preferences|Add/Save page.
Save to Single Directory puts all the books in a single directory. Save only EPUB, saves out only the EPUB format. Save single format will save out only the format you want. I highlight a dozen books in a series and save out the .rtf formats only for one reader.
It's worth emphasizing that it's really no harder to hit Save to Disk than it is to go searching to find the file in a folder in Calibre's Library. Plus, it saves the file out with the name and folder name you want. I have a small PDA that I often read on. It's hard to read the end of long filenames. I like the series number first in the filename, and I want the book in a folder named for the series and author. I would never store my source book that way, but I like it that way on the PDA - so that's my default format for Save to Disk. You can use any field as any part of your filename or folder name for what comes out of Calibre. It really is very very flexible.