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I recently came accross calibre (a few hours ago iirc lol) when I was seperatley searching for software that would convert my e-books and software that would manage my collection. Not that it's huge, only around 16000 books which is nothing compared to my digital comics collection but I digress. Until today I've been manually organizing my books into folders for each author and it's obviousley quite a tedious thing to do as well as to rememeber by whom each series of books was written by and find them within a window covered in named foders so calibre is going to be a very handy application to use (I'm currently in the process of adding all of my ebooks into the library at once lol).
So here's my question:
Why does calibre have to have a seperate library folder and why does it have to copy ebooks into it rather than use existing folders that are in place?
After reading the question myself even I find it a tad to simple and broad so let me try and clarify it it somewhat.
I use a piece of software called comicrack to organise and manage all of my digial comics and manga and just like calibre by default it has an empty library until you set folders that it scans within the preferences menu, now I've set up comickrack to scan the folders I already use to store my comics and manga and tweaked the preferences so that it scans during start up and removes missing files etc but it doesn't make physical copies of the files and just like calibre it uses metadata and has the ability (with certain plugins) to download and save the metadata for comics that are added to my library but doesn't have the added annoyance of having to delete files and calculate double hard drive space when adding a large number of files into the library. So why doesn't calibre work in a similar fashion and if it does but requires a bit of a work around to do so how do I go about it?
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