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Kavita runners (lemmy.tf)

submitted 9 months ago by sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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What's your directory structure right?

Are you storing everything in a flat directory or do you have things organised by author or alphabetically by title?

I'm talking about the actual files on your storage, not the front end.

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[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

- fiction
    - Abbott, Edwin A_
        - Flatland
            - Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott.epub
            - Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott.jpg
            - Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott.opf
    - Achebe, Chinua
        - Things Fall Apart
            - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.epub
            - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.jpg
            - Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe.opf

So in each directory that I use to delineate a library, I have a subdirectory for each author (in sort order form). Within each author subdirectory is a subdirectory for each book, with just the title, then the book with (edit - the anti-injection code mangled how I was trying to say the book file name. it's [book name]-[author].[extension])

I didn't invent this, it's just what Calibre spits out. When I buy a new book, I ingest it into Calibre, fix any metadata and export it to the NAS. Then I delete the Calibre library - I'm just using it to do the neatening up work.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 9 months ago

Ooh, that's interesting!

[–] giddy@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use calibre to manage my collection. Calibre creates a folder per author and a sub-folder per book. I also have separate Calibre libraries for fiction, non-fiction and comics.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 1 points 9 months ago

It seems that author > book is pretty much the standard. Thank you