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Although I have a good memory, it is reeeeally short so I put together a Word doc of the steps you all provided (in terms I can understand), with a few tweaks I added, so if and when I have to deal with this, I would have to do some industrial strength digging around to find this post or pestering you all again. Anyone care to review it to make sure I didn't put down something stupid?
Setting up Multiple Libraries for Calibre
1. Open Calibre.
2. If working with existing libraries, drag each library to the desktop and replace with a temporary empty folder named with the name of the original library.
3. In Preferences, select Advanced, then Configuration Directory.
4. Close all other Calibre screens.
5. Move up one level to the Application Data folder (C:\Documents and Settings\Setup\Application Data on my present computer).
6. Locate a configuration folder named Calibre, make a copy of it, and rename to Calibre 2.
7. Repeat Step 5 for each additional library. Example: Calibre 3, Calibre 4
8. Minimize the Application Data folder.
9. Right click on desktop, click on New, then New Text Document. Rename to calibre (library name).bat (substitute the actual library file name for library name; do not use the parentheses and file extension). Example: caibre e-Books.bat
10. Repeat Step 7 for each library.
11. Right click on the first .bat file, select Edit, then copy and paste the following into the first .bat (batch) file:
set CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=C:\(file path to appropriate configuration folder)
calibre
Substitute file path to configuration folder with the actual file path. Example:
set CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=C:\Documents and Settings\Setup\Application Data\calibre
calibre
12. Repeat the above for each batch file, substituting the correct file path to each configuration folder. Example:
set CALIBRE_CONFIG_DIRECTORY=C:\Documents and Settings\Setup\Application Data\calibre 2
calibre
13. Open each .bat file. When calibre opens, select Preferences and in General, change the location of the e-books (top field) to point to the corresponding library. Close calibre when changed.
14. When all .bat files have had the locations changed in Preferences, restore any previously existing libraries from the desktop to their original locations (delete the temporary folder in each location first).
15. Open each library, drag the associated .bat file and drop in the library. After relocating the .bat file but before closing the library, “drag” the .bat file to the Quick Launch Menu and the Start Menu Button. That will create the necessary shortcuts. The original calibre shortcut may be used instead of the first.bat shortcut to access the original library (the one created when calibre was installed).
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