Alfa ebook manager vs calibre manuals#
Alfa ebook manager vs calibre series#

I manage the ebooks also on the Wife's Kindle.

Copyright titles that were free are treated as paid for. Indeed there IS an owner column with purchaser, writer, or CC or PD. The versions in Calibre may be edited/reformatted. Why don't you just sort your books by date in Calibre since it supports any view? Why have those local folders at all? You could even tag them by purchased or public domain. Users were not supposed to access those files without the program. I found that a fixed directory structure to import copies of the documents was better than big blobs in the database. I wrote a document management system in 2004 and it used and SQL server. What Calibre does makes perfect sense and I never delete what it imports and puts in its own file structure.

Alfa ebook manager vs calibre manuals#

These are old magazines, old technical reference, 1922 to current service info (for Radio, TV, Taperecorders, Record players, amps, Test gear), operation manuals (ones readable on 6' are in Calibre too), 1000s of component data sheets, application notes etc. The 10' Lenovo tablet using Xodo has a mirror copy of the several thousand PDFs in the same structure, on the 256 G SD card. Only the actual novels readable on larger eink are imported to Calibre. PDFs are organised in hierarchical subject folders. Those and 'Calibre Library' have mirror copies on the server which has the books the wife buys too. But actually real ebooks (as opposed to PDFs) take up so little space that I have two additional directories locally:Д®books (all the public domain in ONE folder, I can sort by date) It only makes sense to have an arbitrary structure if you are NOT using an ebook manager.

If you are going to have a book manager it makes sense that it has its own method for actually storing the books.

Alfa ebook manager vs calibre series#

Some people might want to organize books by series or alphabetical by title as opposed to authors or some other scheme and Calibre doesn't allow that. I think people are talking more about the directory structure in the Calibre Library being by author(s) rather than where the Calibre library is located.