Thread: any way to prevent calibre from making a copy of the book when added to its library?
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Old 01-05-2012, 01:59 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by toddos View Post
I agree that there's no point in not letting calibre handle books. I think it's the Right Way to Do Things (tm) and hacking around it is silly. But the "solution" provides only a catalog interface without any of the actual functionality of calibre like syncing or conversion, so just ... why? People who have historically asked for calibre to stop doing this have done so because they have their own file system-based cataloging structure that they don't want calibre to mess up. So what's the point in using calibre to catalog a set of data that you* already technically have cataloged?

* That is the collective "you", not you in particular
I know I didn't use Calibre at all (except for conversion) when I simply couldn't use that feature of Calibre (it was a hindrance for me), so don't ask me

But, on the other hand, writing out a "hacking" method, does show why Calibre does as Calibre does.
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