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Single & Not Looking
Sounds like you have more experience in this stuff than I do,
. I've spent alot of time on it all though, probably too much. When it comes to eReaders I'm lazy: I just want to be able to throw an ebook on my reader and have it work perfectly right off the bat, no fuss, no muss, but it seems like I end up having to fight with almost every ebook I want to read, which I just don't have the time for anymore.
PDF's seem to be the biggest problem for me; they never look right on my Nook, with the way the formatting is. If I zoom out enough to see the entire layout, the print is too small to comfortably read, and if I zoom into a normal font size, alot of things just don't show up anymore, like some of the extra pictures, etc., plus like ya mentioned, there's alot of big blank spaces sometimes, and weird formatting.
I rarely have much of a problem, other than the dead space which I honestly can deal with. I have 300-400 ebooks currently and have gotten a good percentage of them formatted nicely. Or at least nicer than they were, and more importantly edited the metadata so that they are organized nicely. I just recently started to go back through my old books that I converted to PDF and starting reconverting to epub. For no valid reason other than I have some mental issue with things being very precise and organized.
I think the thing with calibre is it's just nice to be able to add tags, sort by author, sort by year, by series' and a butt-ton of other things, and all the books are shown in one list, with columns showing some metadata. Plus when you click one you can see a bunch of it's metadata, summaries, cover, etc. in the right window pane, and you can launch/read any book in the list by clicking it instead of having to open explorer find the folder ya want then run each book you might want to read.
This is a prime example of what I don't get. One would think with as detailed and methodical as I am, that I would love this level of organization. I WOULD love it, if it were on my Nook; I don't see the point in having my ebooks here, when they are on my Nook (and aforementioned flash). I suspect if I did not have an ereader that this would be a great program to utilize in order to read ebooks.
For instance, you could have it point to your Flash Drive
with the folders on it, and just have Calibre use that as it's working folder so no new ones are created, it just uses those, and in the options you can tweak it to save the folder names exactly how you like them. Dunno if you've already tried the highlighted things below, but if not, it might be worth toying with
I've tried. At least in the past, maybe the new updates will render a different result. Previously, when having it sent directly to my flash, it still created undesirable files. That was annoying, because instead of taking the ONE file I did want and moving it, I had to find the ones I didn't and delete.
All in all, I love my Nook, and have very few complaints with it, or the ebooks I read on it.