Calibre uses directory of books as structure

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

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.

Oh, i am SO sorry for reading other part of mobileread and sometimes bumping onto topic that are in the calibre section.

stonehat, some people have expressed opinion in a rather hard way. Result is that some people will automatically switch to aggressive mode when anyone brings that topic about, even in a normal, sensible, way.

If topic about this annoys you, may I remind you that the forum have a ignore topic feature ?

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by ThR

Calibre stores its contents in a database. A file system IS a database and calibre is using it. Where's the problem?

Your computer's file system isn't a database in the same way that SQLite is. Using the computer's file system to do things like queries and lookups instead of a database program like SQLite would be slow and inefficient. Calibre uses SQLite as a database (for doing queries and lookups and other such things that databases are good at), and uses your computer's file system for storing files (which your computer's file system is good at).

[Agama]

Originally Posted by stonehat

The authors of both of those explanations seem incapable of contemplating the use of a database to store ( ebook meta ) data instead of using a wierd directory structure in a file system - the rest of the world thinks differently.

And, sheesh, if that is an indication of the way Calibre people take on new ( to them ) ideas, I will stay well away !

stonehat, you will generally find the people in this forum very helpful but you have hit a bit of a "oh no, here we go again" topic.

It's actually not a weird structure at all, it's simple and logical. As far as I remember this is also the sort of structure that iTunes uses for music.

Disk space is cheap but if you really don't want 2 copies sitting around, (and 2 copies can mean they get out of sync), then, after adding to calibre's library, you could replace your original with a link/shortcut to the calibre version.