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Originally Posted by megachirops
Calibre already has the code to deal with archives. Have you ever considered just storing the library in a single .zip archive (named calibre-library.db or some such) so that people stop thinking of the books as "files" and just treat the archive as the Calibre database.
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calibre originally used to do that, but there are various disadvantages. Less robust, makes incremental backups impossible, interoperation between calibre and other software harder and so on.