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Old 04-20-2011, 09:48 AM   #46
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This is a Calibre congrats thread - can we keep to the topic and not use it for arguments - please .... :catsmilie:
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Old 04-20-2011, 11:25 AM   #47
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Firstly you can browse the calibre library with "good old file browser," secondly yes, it does organise its library to suit itself... that's what all databases do and thirdly, if you don't like calibre's layout then you can always save to disk in your own arrangement... that's what I do... treat calibre library as backup of everything and save to a working masterset organised precisely how I want...

Congrats calibre... and thanks to Kovid...


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Most of the time, i do some small fixes to the books I buy. Different format, calibre will handle. Different version of the same book, you won't be able to tel who's who.
And I like to be able to browse my books using the good old file browser, and the way calibre does it, can't find anything there.
I have the same problem with calibre than with iTunes and such, software thinking they know better than me how I want to organize my files.
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Old 04-20-2011, 04:45 PM   #48
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Congratulations, Kovid, you build a really useful program and I'm glad to see it get some of the recognition it deserves. I love the way it lets me organize my books and organize the way I think about them. The tags make choosing the next books almost as much fun as reading them.
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Congrats Kovid and the Calibre team! Excellent program!
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Different version of the same book, you won't be able to tel who's who.
Sure you can. Tags would be one way, Series another, or if you don't have a use for one of the other fields you could co-opt it for your own purposes. For example, you could use the Rating field and that way keep track of up to 6 versions of the same book. I.e. the retail version is rated 0, your first edit is rated 1, your second edit is rated 2, etc.

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And I like to be able to browse my books using the good old file browser, and the way calibre does it, can't find anything there.
That's odd. I think you must be looking in the wrong directory. If I look in my "Calibre Library" directory, I see multiple directories named after authors. Then in each author directory there's another list of directories, each one named with the title of a book. And inside each of those there's the book itself, plus a metadata.opf file as well as the cover image.

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I have the same problem with calibre than with iTunes and such, software thinking they know better than me how I want to organize my files.
I hear you on this one, and if you're not happy with the Author/Title sort described above, then yeah, I guess Calibre isn't for you. And I fully understand that, I hate how my iPod won't let me browse by directory either, which is why I installed Rockbox on it, which allows for both database browsing like an iPod, as well as directory structure browsing.
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Old 04-21-2011, 08:37 AM   #52
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That's odd. I think you must be looking in the wrong directory. If I look in my "Calibre Library" directory, I see multiple directories named after authors. Then in each author directory there's another list of directories, each one named with the title of a book. And inside each of those there's the book itself, plus a metadata.opf file as well as the cover image.
Exactly. Right now, i have only one level of folder, with folders not necessarily author or book title.

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Sure you can. Tags would be one way, Series another, or if you don't have a use for one of the other fields you could co-opt it for your own purposes. For example, you could use the Rating field and that way keep track of up to 6 versions of the same book. I.e. the retail version is rated 0, your first edit is rated 1, your second edit is rated 2, etc.
To put on the tags, you would need to know who's who. And when browsing folders, you don't see the tags.
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Old 04-21-2011, 01:58 PM   #53
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Thanks, all Always good to see calibre getting some press.
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Old 04-22-2011, 03:39 PM   #54
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Exactly. Right now, i have only one level of folder, with folders not necessarily author or book title.


To put on the tags, you would need to know who's who. And when browsing folders, you don't see the tags.
Do you not have any metadata in your library?

When browsing folder you not seeing anything other then what os provides is an os feature and not that of any application you might use to manage your books/files.
The tags are actually pretty neat, you don't have to reuse the existing ones, you can define your own. That's what I do for omnibuses.
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What I'm talking about is the free flow of all ideas with more weight/influence to some ideas given based on the ideas popularity in the public's mind.

Copyright is an impediment to this free flow and programs like Calibre are helping to end this impediment, by allowing for the easy insertion of ideas into our minds.

What is so hard to understand about that?
Not hard - it's gibberish all right. Meaningful phrases, that do not make sense together.
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Old 04-22-2011, 08:34 PM   #57
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yep. where would most of us be without Calibre?
My question is: why isn't there more coverage?
In my mind, it's front and center in the ereader experience.
Congrats Kovid et al.
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hen browsing folder you not seeing anything other then what os provides
Exactly. What the OS sees is folders and files names, that's why I need to have some control over them.
The orizon will read metadata to display title name and author, but will still use folders.

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where would most of us be without Calibre?
Well, converting all there mobi would have been a pain.

For the rest, I live very well without calibre. Well, importing my books in the software I'm making, made me realise I didn't have that many book.
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For the rest, I live very well without calibre. Well, importing my books in the software I'm making, made me realise I didn't have that many book.
So how is that software of yours coming along? I haven't seen any releases yet.
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