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Old 01-04-2012, 03:08 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by toddos View Post
What's the point of that? You're basically adding an empty book with a pointer to your own location. Because it's an empty book, you can't do anything with it in calibre -- you can't convert it, open it to read, sync it to a device, etc. You may as well just manually write your books down in Excel or something, for all the benefit this gives you.
What's the point in not letting Calibre handle the location of the books? I never said it was the best way to do things, I only said it was possible (as that was the original question, wasn't it?)

But, I don't really agree with your statement that writing it down in Excel would achieve the same thing. Once I have my lounge ready, I'll be adding all my paper books to Calibre as well. I already have my audible books in there too. It can still be a handy tool to keep track of your books. Why else is there an option for entering empty books?
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