Deeply bothered by Calibre (lack of) conversion

[Agama]

Originally Posted by obieephyhm

I look into folders for a variety of reasons . . . avoid unnecessary duplications, backups, sorting/organizing to name a few. I generally don't like 'blackbox' situations where I am supposed to be content with 'some magic happens here' . . . I think I should be able to find what I'm looking for and expect to have software I use handle things in (more or less) an intuitive manner.

Originally Posted by obieephyhm

Yeah. Sigh. That appears to be what works best although I find it a bit frustrating that I can't maintain a single file system of all my books so I can keep up with additions, deletions etc. etc.

Calibre does maintain a single file system for all of your books and provides all the functions for managing your library, including: sorting, organizing, managing duplications, additions, deletions, etc. via the user interface and in a much more flexible way than manually managing the underlying computer file structure.

• Sorting/Filtering is available using almost any criteria related to your books, (including your own custom fields).

• Additions can be monitored by sorting your library view by date.

• Deletions can be managed by creating a second library, (still within the same file structure), called something like "Archive". From calibre's UI you can move live books to your archive and easily bring them back at a later date if you change your mind.

• Backup is easy using whatever method you currently use for any of your computer folders, e.g. I use a script to backup new and changed files to an external hard drive.

You also get additional features such as:

• Virtual Libraries

• Catalogs

• Web Server book access

• Book Conversion and Editing

So feel free to look at the neat and tidy file structure that calibre creates and maintains for you: just don't change it manually.