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stonehat · 07-18-2011, 04:20 PM

I would like to use Calibre, it seems to be a great program that does a lot of things I need, but I am not willing to create a duplicate of all my ebooks just to put them in Calibre's system.

In the FAQ, I read "The whole point of calibre's library management features is that they provide a search and sort based interface for locating books that is much more efficient than any possible directory scheme you could come up with for your collection.".

Am I to understand that the directory structure forms the book database, rather than storing the information in a real, seperate database ? This seems a little strange.
If it is not possible to move away from using the directories as a database, would it not be possible for Calibre to only store links to the actual ebook files, obviating the need for copying the files themselves ?

TIA.

07-18-2011, 04:20 PM	#1
stonehat Re-Iliadist Posts: 23 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: none	Calibre uses directory of books as structure I would like to use Calibre, it seems to be a great program that does a lot of things I need, but I am not willing to create a duplicate of all my ebooks just to put them in Calibre's system. In the FAQ, I read "The whole point of calibre's library management features is that they provide a search and sort based interface for locating books that is much more efficient than any possible directory scheme you could come up with for your collection.". Am I to understand that the directory structure forms the book database, rather than storing the information in a real, seperate database ? This seems a little strange. If it is not possible to move away from using the directories as a database, would it not be possible for Calibre to only store links to the actual ebook files, obviating the need for copying the files themselves ? TIA.