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While Calibre is not what I'd consider to be a "beautiful" program, I do not care. It's functionality is unbeaten. What I really hate about it is the directory
by zmix 7y ago
While Calibre is not what I'd consider to be a "beautiful" program, I do not care. It's functionality is unbeaten.
What I really hate about it is the directory structure, it forces upon you. I have my books sorted in topical directories and Calibre sorts them by author. That sucks. If this single issue would be addressed, I couldn't be happier with Calibre, especially, since Kovid is a very helpful person.
- pnutjam 7y agoDo you tag your books? The metadata can be very helpful. You could also consider libraries by topic.
- zmix 7y agoI tag my files on macOS since the OpenMeta days. But I refuse to access any library with an application frontend, it's the file system or nothing. These Librarian apps are good for metadata management. That's what I use them for. However, I am mostly on Windows, these days, so no chance for filesystem tags, even worse now, that I have all my eBooks on a home server.
- pnutjam 7y agoThe DB frontend is very useful for metadata, short descriptions, and finding duplicates. I run a headless version of Calibre in the cloud, so I can read in the browser and do other stuff.
- _Microft 7y agoAfaik there are tools that use Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to store metadata for files (on NTFS drives).