07-18-2011, 04:20 PM | #1 |
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Calibre uses directory of books as structure
I would like to use Calibre, it seems to be a great program that does a lot of things I need, but I am not willing to create a duplicate of all my ebooks just to put them in Calibre's system.
In the FAQ, I read "The whole point of calibre's library management features is that they provide a search and sort based interface for locating books that is much more efficient than any possible directory scheme you could come up with for your collection.". Am I to understand that the directory structure forms the book database, rather than storing the information in a real, seperate database ? This seems a little strange. If it is not possible to move away from using the directories as a database, would it not be possible for Calibre to only store links to the actual ebook files, obviating the need for copying the files themselves ? TIA. |
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And, sheesh, if that is an indication of the way Calibre people take on new ( to them ) ideas, I will stay well away ! |
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07-18-2011, 06:20 PM | #4 |
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This is not a new idea. It has been around for years and is brought up about once a month. Typically it's brought up in a fashion not nearly as nice as you did. That said there has not been a convincing enough argument to change the current directory structure.
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07-18-2011, 06:36 PM | #5 |
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Understand what you are speaking about before opening your mouth to bleat.
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07-18-2011, 08:38 PM | #6 | |
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Plus Using your idea: 1 tiny DB burp and books are gone. BLOBs are not as robust as what we have. Metadata.db can be totally destroyed and the books are still there. In addition, Calibre backs up the record with the titles metadata in the same folder. Calibre can rebuild the DB from this data. |
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07-19-2011, 06:37 AM | #7 |
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Aaaand here we go again XD... I wonder if Kovidgoyal has a bet about how long he can say no to this request from the users.
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It's been said again and again that if someone wants to do the work to create a new backend that allows for this then by all means do so. Kovid has been working on making the DB pluggable to support cases like this. However, Kovid as well as every other calibre developer has no interest in this feature. We will not spend our time working on it.
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It's not a new idea. As Manichean said in one of the linked-to threads, "There's been enough of that discussion already, and at best you'll get annoyed reactions by everyone." Last edited by avantman42; 07-19-2011 at 07:34 AM. Reason: Added formatting to make things clearer |
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07-19-2011, 07:35 AM | #11 |
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Calibre stores its contents in a database. A file system IS a database and calibre is using it. Where's the problem?
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07-19-2011, 09:16 AM | #13 |
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Actually, Kovid is being quite charming under the circumstances. Every month or few, we have someone who comes to this forum to complain about calibre not using the user's folder/filename tree and reject any explainations from the FAQs, the developers, and other users. We even have one person who comes back to the forum for the sole purpose of compaining about it. After a while, the attacks become tiresome.
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