Anyone know of some organizational tools

[cewong2]

Aside from Calibre to be a library, I'm wondering if anyone might know of any tools (preferable with a GUI as opposed to command line) which could help rename ebook files. I have books with Asian Character names, and as much as I like Calibre as an organizational system, I do like to have the files organized as well without the software. But Calibre likes to rename it into latin characters, and even at that it's wrong sometimes. What I'd like to try and find is a tool that could read the meta data, and pull the Asian Character name and use that as part of the file name.

I found this project: https github com/na--/ebook-tools/ (not sure if I can post links) that did it as a bash script, but I don't know if it has support for unicode names, as I didn't try it.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by cewong2

Aside from Calibre to be a library, I'm wondering if anyone might know of any tools (preferable with a GUI as opposed to command line) which could help rename ebook files. I have books with Asian Character names, and as much as I like Calibre as an organizational system, I do like to have the files organized as well without the software. But Calibre likes to rename it into latin characters, and even at that it's wrong sometimes. What I'd like to try and find is a tool that could read the meta data, and pull the Asian Character name and use that as part of the file name.

I found this project: https github com/na--/ebook-tools/ (not sure if I can post links) that did it as a bash script, but I don't know if it has support for unicode names, as I didn't try it.

The reason for calibre's filename conversion is to allow the maximum compatibility across operating systems. Since calibre will save to disk or send to device with filenames including CJK glyphs, why worry about how they are stored in calibre's library. In other words, stop peeking under calibre's skirts and treat it as a black box that inputs and outputs books.

[Quoth]

Pretend Calibre's files don't exist. They are part of the database and not intended to be accessed directly! The Export/Save to disc functionality lets you have any filename you want. See Plugboards (?).
With Kindle, Sony and Kobo ereaders the filename exported is also irrelevant as the native readers use metadata, databases and library interfaces.

The filename only matters when export/copying to something that uses a file browser / manager to load a file to read.

Calibre also isn't a conventional "library", it's more a catalogue and ebook for ereader management system.

[cewong2]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The reason for calibre's filename conversion is to allow the maximum compatibility across operating systems. Since calibre will save to disk or send to device with filenames including CJK glyphs, why worry about how they are stored in calibre's library. In other words, stop peeking under calibre's skirts and treat it as a black box that inputs and outputs books.

It's meant as a backup solution that isn't tied to Calibre. Anyhow, I figured out how to use Calibre to save a copy with the Unicode characters, instead of the awful transliteration which uses Chinese for everything, (Most books are in Japanese).

For reference to anyone who is new to Calibre and looking to do the same or need files names not maligned:
Set up file name format in preferences for save to disk, then use the save to disk feature to save to whoever you want, it will save it with the Unicode name.