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Old 06-25-2011, 01:45 PM   #13
GRiker
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If I understand the above correctly, the alternative option will mean that Calibre will create a duplicate of any book we send to the iDevice?
Yes

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Presumably that duplicate will need to exist as long as we care for iTunes to be able to use that item.
Yep.

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I wonder if it would be a good idea to have the option for that duplicate to be deleted when we close Calibre, or something like that, once we do the needed sync, so the added copy isn't laying around, and we could always resend it from Calibre if we need to resync it in iTunes again.
I'm not an Apple/iTunes guy-- itunes is only a necessary evil to me to get books on my wife's iPod--so I don't know if I'm making sense to everyone else, here.
Different folks have different sync strategies for their iDevices. The current implementation will delete the book from the local storage when the user deletes the book from the connected device, i.e. iTunes. That's the only safe way to manage deletions - let the user decide.

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BTW, can you point me to info on the architectural changes that are making this necessary?
That's a question that Kovid will need to respond to.

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