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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
calibre "forces" you to keep only one copy. The extra copy for itunes is present because of itunes (or more precisely because Apple dont want you to use anything other than itunes to send files to their devices). There is nothing that prevents you from working on files in the calibre library, so there is no need to keep an extra copy to work on. The only restriction is that you don't move the files around outside of calibre.
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I know we can "work" on the copy in the Calibre database, just not moving it, but it has always been recommended that we don't touch it at all and work on a copy outside Calibre. Which may be a good suggestion as I think I hit a situation where the meta was out of sync once and the only way to fix was to delete the book from the library and re-import it.
Apple does want us to use iTunes to sync but they don't force you have have a separate copy. At least up until now as they were happy to use the copy in the Calibre database. This is how all of my music, apps and everything else iTunes syncs is currently handled as I don't use the "copy to iTunes library" option.
In my case, I have one copy on a backup drive and then one copy in Calibre which was also used by iTunes so unless I have a copy out to work on for some reason I really only have 2 copies. Now I will have at least 3.
BTW, what happens with the unsupported sync with iDevice instead of the connect to iTunes method? Will that go away in this case or will that still be available but unsupported?
[Edited to remove a question answered before I could post.]