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Originally Posted by VicLavigne
My initial reaction to calibre was that I didn't like the fact that it copied all my added books to its own folder. It really bothered me that it was duplicating ebooks, although looking back I'm really not sure why. At the time I was in the middle of editing a few books, and so I guess part of the reason was that I wanted a way to separate ebooks that were being edited from ebooks that were fine.
So now I've been using it for about 2 years, and I find that the organization built-in to calibre actually makes things easier for me. I don't have to worry about ebooks scattered in different folders - once added to calibre, I can delete the original version. Also, I can find specific books much faster with a variety of ways to search via calibre. And I have a tag so I can find books that are due for editing.
Vic
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I still have two locations where I keep my books. The Calibre library and a source library. As I can't add those to Calibre without Calibre (sorry for the language) **** them up... The compiled books are all in Calibre. I also have a custom column to specify if a book is still in its raw form (as I always will reformat).
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Originally Posted by GoldThreader
like the title says is it possible to prevent it from making a copy and just add the books?
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Yes. But it'll require some manual work.
1) Create a custom column: "location". A simple text field will do (it would be nice if there was a kind of path column type, but text will do for now).
2) Add your book to Calibre. This will create the entry into the database.
3) Edit the metadata for the book
4) Remove "physical" book and paste the location where the "physical" book is residing into the custom metadata column.
Naturally, you won't be able to copy from Calibre to your device as Calibre won't know where to find the book...