08-28-2010, 07:38 PM | #1 |
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Calibre...DVD or CD?
I am sure this is a dumb question but does it matter whether you burn books to CD or DVD from Calibre and do you have to do them one at a time. Thanks for your patience. Be nice.
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08-28-2010, 09:29 PM | #2 |
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I don't know. Why don't you try it and see what happens?
You might get a better response on the Calibre forum. |
08-28-2010, 10:54 PM | #3 |
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"I don't know. Why don't you try it and see what happens?"
Because I don't want to *** it up. I thought someone might just say "CD" or "DVD". "You might get a better response on the Calibre forum" I didn't know there was a Calibre forum. Will check that out. Thank you. Last edited by dreams; 08-29-2010 at 04:34 AM. Reason: profanity removed by MR moderation team |
08-29-2010, 12:30 AM | #4 | |
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your hard drive. That directory contains copy of converted file and the convert itself. Nothing stops you from making new copy of epubs to another directory and putting them to cd/dvd. There is no hidden ghost in this machine. |
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08-29-2010, 02:46 AM | #5 |
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I have no idea what you just said. I may be making it more complicated than I have to.
When I put something into Calibre I just drag it to the desktop icon but you made my pea brain open up a bit. I will burn the folder I am dragging from instead of using the 'save to disc' option on Calibre. :-) It really is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Thanks so much for your help and patience. |
08-29-2010, 02:54 AM | #6 |
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Maybe it would help to say that "save to disc" in Calibre just means "save to your designated drive"? It can be your hard drive, a flash drive, a removable drive...
It really isn't designed for creating CDs or DVDs - even though most of us are probably more used to thinking of those as discs than our various drives. I didn't understand your question at first because I've been using Calibre for so long that I didn't associate "save to disc" to burning a CD or DVD. HTH |
08-29-2010, 03:25 AM | #7 | |
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Without installing Calibre to be 100% sure I would say that Calibre itself does not burn CDs or DVDs directly but would leave that to the underlying operating system. If the OS is Windows: I seem to recall that Windows accumulates files written to the CD or DVD in a temporary storage area until committed to the disc via an explicit close session. Even if my mental model differs from the implementation model the apparent results are the same. With Windows (and in this case) yes you can write to either CD or DVD and either one file or multiple files at a time just as you would a flash or hard drive. I have never tried to write piecemeal to a a Mac or Linux CD/DVD drive---preferring instead to write my data files as a block from appropriate burning software---so I can't tell you how those OSes deal with things. "Strike Out: Reading Unedited Text" |
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08-29-2010, 03:52 AM | #8 |
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You're right. I think people who just learn the basics to survive have an entirely different language.
I did get help here though and I really appreciate it. I didn't realize 'save to disc' meant anything other than burn a CD so I am happy to have learned something new once again. Have a great day and thank you again. |
08-29-2010, 06:20 AM | #9 |
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"Save to disk" means exactly what it says: extract this book from Calibre and save it as a file on your disk.
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I tend to think of my computer as having a hard "drive" or even a portable hard "drive" for a removable drive that's larger than a couple of GB. Again, that could be because at work I use various shared network drives and seldom use my "C drive"...but that's why I thought I could understand the OP's confusion. So "save to disk" - to me - gets translated internally to "save to hard drive". Is it possible this is another "across the pond" confusion in terms? |
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08-29-2010, 07:24 AM | #11 |
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You could well be right. We call them "hard disks".
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08-29-2010, 11:12 AM | #12 |
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Pretty simple thing becomes a bit complicated.
First, calibre copies i.e. pdf file to the directory that one named as the output directory, when configured for the first time. Then it converts whatever to epub in the same directory. Nothing more, nothing less. If one wants to burn epubs to cd/dvd, nothing might stop him/her. I think it is a mess of files and it is better to store resul- ting epubs to separate directory, followed by removal of content in calibre. In other instance, if one uses those files and makes calibre the app to put them to the reader? Fine again. Since the question was about making cd/dvd, I think there is nothing to be said more. |
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My apologies if I came across snarky. That wasn't the intent. |
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