I buy a lot of digital RPG books - the shelf space in my apartment is ultimately limited, while the space on my hard drive is far less constrained (despite current storage prices). Furthermore, while the reading experience is still slightly better for physical books, I have a color e-ink reader which comes close enough for my purposes.
However, I do have a pet peeve with some RPG publishers: They refuse to give the files proper file names. Paizo is the worst offender among them, though not the only one.
I mean, I don’t mind if the file name includes the product code. It’s fine if a “PZO13008E” somewhere in there.
But please, for all that is unholy, make the file name “PZO13008E Hellfire Dispatches” instead of just leaving it at that! When I am making large purchases of multiple books - which I do frequently - I have to go on a renaming orgy:
- Open the file
- Check what product this file represents
- Close the file
- Rename the file
If the file name included the actual product title, I could skip steps 1-3.
You might try Calibre, an open source eBook manager.
It can often ferret out the title and will place files in its library as “{author_sort}/{title}/{title} - {authors}” by default. If you use it to sync to an e-Ink reader, it’ll also pick up the best format and do on-the-fly conversion before copying the files (so that the files open faster and images are more reliable). That used to help a lot on my first-gen Nook, haven’t had a dedicated reader in a bit.
The downside is if you’re using something like DriveThru’s download manager, you likely need two copies of the files because if Calibre moves them, they’ll no longer match the manager’s library sync.
And absolutely, they should name the files correctly.