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Originally Posted by stonehat
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 ?
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http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....tory-structure give some explanation for why calibre works the way it does. The latter also says "Finally, if you are irrevocably wedded to the filesystem, feel free to patch your local copy of calibre to use whatever storage scheme you like. But, do not bother me with requests to change the directory structure, they will be ignored." I think that answers your question.