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Originally Posted by lalebarde
Until now - before installing calibre - I have had an orginized directory tree with many pdf and chm. If I use the "Add Books" fonction, will it actually make a copy in another place ("the storage location you specified") ? My wish would be it keeps every book at the place they are and put their path in the database.
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I too went through this way of thinking when I started using calibre. It did seem a bit wasteful to take copies of my originals, so I have come up with a solution. I wanted calibre's library to contain only the ePub output from conversion and associated cover.jpg files, (plus of course the metadata), so I deleted all the following files from the calibre library structure: *.pdf, *.txt, *.zip and it worked - no duplicates and calibre works with no error messages.
However, it's really not worth the effort. Source books are relatively small, (about the tenth of the size of a music track or a digital photo), and so the saving in disk space is next to nothing.
One beneficial side effect of calibre's approach is that you have an automatic backup of your original in the event of an accident.
So I just leave things alone and let calibre work the way it works!