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Thanks for all the good info Chaley.
Long posts like yours are very welcome.

I've been out of programming for 15 years, and as everything else things move on.
Glad to see the number field can go much higher. I expected it could, but I have seen some really, really good programmers make simple errors before.

I dislike "black boxes" intensely. I always want to know how things work.

It's been a curse and a blessing my entire life, and it's why I dislike OS X and Windows 7 so much but that's for a different thread.

I don't expect a rewrite of the library storage code. Not worth the hassle.

I don't see how referencing the files by the (xxx) number in the folder would cause data integrity problems, but without knowing more about how the tables are setup I will defer to you.
We may be talking about 2 different things.
There is how you can save files externally, and how Calibre saves files to it's library.
In my rather rigid mindset I would like the basic library file structure to be the same as
the database field structure. It's just easier to visualize, though I am aware it's just as easy to make it any way a programmer wants.

I didn't think about Asian languages, since I never had to deal with them in my work which was all with US companies and government.
Funny since I had a Chinese fiancee' who was Lin Fang in Chinese, but Fang Lin in English.

Glad to see someone else as old as I around here.

Thanks and nice to meet you,

Rich