This is what I want to do:
I want to stick books in Calibre edit titles, authors, covers and then save them out with all these changes reflected in saved post Calibre product. I usually edit, then convert to .azw3 hoping changes are reflected in this new file. Most files are already .azw3 to start with (but I convert them too, to their own format). I'd like to have filename reflect author-title with no extra spaces (without having my kindle reflect title/author author/title differently than normal). Then I will read in my Kindle 5th gen.
These are the problems I'm having trying to do this:
Trying to output books creates extra folders/folder-directory structure I don't want or need.
Outputting creates extra files I don't want or need such as .jpeg cover picture, .opf file, extra ebook formats (other than the 1 and only 1 I wanted).
Files are truncated (shortened), but I want full file names.
Switching author title order in Calibre (swap title author check box in edit metadata after selecting multiple books) makes file renaming easier (just have to change author" - "title to author"-"title, but creates unwanted issue where some of my books are displayed title-author, and some author-title in Kindle issue
I just want to take all my books out of Calibre at the same time to move to new save area on PC, (or just those of a certain type in bulk if not possible) and have just those selected formats of those selected ebooks go to one folder not creating ANYTHING extra (especially folders) being named title-author (no extra spaces) (without creating display title-author/author-title backwards issue in Kindle. And I don't want the titles shortened. Is this even possible?
I have tried saving multiple ways nothing seems to do what I would like. :(
I want to stick books in Calibre edit titles, authors, covers and then save them out with all these changes reflected in saved post Calibre product. I usually edit, then convert to .azw3 hoping changes are reflected in this new file. Most files are already .azw3 to start with (but I convert them too, to their own format). I'd like to have filename reflect author-title with no extra spaces (without having my kindle reflect title/author author/title differently than normal). Then I will read in my Kindle 5th gen.
These are the problems I'm having trying to do this:
Trying to output books creates extra folders/folder-directory structure I don't want or need.
Outputting creates extra files I don't want or need such as .jpeg cover picture, .opf file, extra ebook formats (other than the 1 and only 1 I wanted).
Files are truncated (shortened), but I want full file names.
Switching author title order in Calibre (swap title author check box in edit metadata after selecting multiple books) makes file renaming easier (just have to change author" - "title to author"-"title, but creates unwanted issue where some of my books are displayed title-author, and some author-title in Kindle issue
I just want to take all my books out of Calibre at the same time to move to new save area on PC, (or just those of a certain type in bulk if not possible) and have just those selected formats of those selected ebooks go to one folder not creating ANYTHING extra (especially folders) being named title-author (no extra spaces) (without creating display title-author/author-title backwards issue in Kindle. And I don't want the titles shortened. Is this even possible?
I have tried saving multiple ways nothing seems to do what I would like. :(