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Originally Posted by ysbelman
The analogy for separating physical file storage and metadata is iTunes. There, you can have all of your mp3's dumped into an arbitrary file structure. iTunes will maintain a database of all the songs, playlists, id3 metadata, scoring and file paths to originals.
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This is exactly how calibre works. It is a conscious design decision not to allow arbitrary locations and put everything (including books) within the calibre library folder.