Renaming Amazon Books and X-Ray

[Maviellas]

I'm having some problems using Calibre to rename books that I bought from Amazon. Whenever I rename them I seem to lose X-Ray functionality, not sure if it's because of Calibre or if X-Ray is linked to the name. So far I just avoided renaming the files but as my library builds up it's getting more and more unorganized (even using the categories function on the Paperwhite). If anyone knows a simple solution around this it would be a great help!

[eschwartz]

I use a custom column called Original Filename, that I store the original filename of Amazon books, so theinfo is always linked and I can simply overwrite the book from calibre without problems.

X-Ray, as well as APNX, EndActions, annotations/bookmarks, etc. are all located in the appropriately named file within the {/ondevice/path/to/book}.sdr folder, and the path must match up.

The following save to device template will use the default save path (actually, I do cut the authors field short after the first author), but only if the field "#file" (seen as Original Filename) is empty. If "#field" has something in it, in other words an original filename, it uses that instead:

program: ifempty(field('#file'), template('[[author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)]]/[[title]] - [[authors:sublist(0,1,&)]]'))

You can also rename the folder+file combinations to move the .sdr folders to match up with where calibre puts the book.

I want a plugin that will let you use these files, saved in calibre, by sending them automatically, but I will most likely have to write it myself one of these days.