Thread: Calibre uses directory of books as structure
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Old 07-18-2011, 08:38 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by stonehat View Post
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 ?

TIA.
Might be good for 20-100 books... But some users have 20K or more.

Plus
Using your idea: 1 tiny DB burp and books are gone.
BLOBs are not as robust as what we have.

Metadata.db can be totally destroyed and the books are still there.
In addition, Calibre backs up the record with the titles metadata in the same folder.
Calibre can rebuild the DB from this data.
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