Thread: any way to prevent calibre from making a copy of the book when added to its library?
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Old 04-03-2012, 03:58 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by SiriusEx View Post
Hi guys,

1st post, although I've read various threads while I was considering which reader to get and while I was setting up—thanks for all the help this forum has given .
Welcome, though it's generally frowned on making posts to old threads that have otherwise died.


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At the beginning of my Masters, I got a Dropbox account to do automatically back up all the stuff related to my research, and Dropbox insists on using its own folder structure. No biggie, since I only just started, so I copied everything over. However, now that I need to transfer all those things to the reader, I don't really feel like making and maintaining a second copy.

In my Dropbox folder are things that the reader can't handle properly: HTML archives, Word/Excel/Powerpoint documents, proprietary data files, video files, etc. Many PDFs and ePub files are also derived from those proprietary documents, and I'd really prefer to keep those together rather than make a new folder full of assorted documents purely so I can transfer them to the reader. So establishing the Calibre Library in the Dropbox isn't a solution either. Having Calibre manage all my books would be nice, yes, but when I already have an established folder structure, I'd rather keep that intact.
This I don't understand. Dropbox doesn't enforce an internal folder structure. You just tell it, "Sync everything in this folder to the cloud," and it does it. Many folks have used Calibre by putting their library in their dropbox sync folder. Just create a folder underneath the root and let Dropbox and Calibre do their respective things. Once you've imported a file into Calibre, you can delete the original source since Calibre takes care of managing the file for you. For things not managed by Calibre, put them in other folders under the dropbox root.

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The more I read up on it, the more I realise I only want a way to easily sync documents and make collections on my PRS-T1, instead of a full-blown manager. Unfortunately that kind of software doesn't seem to exist, and Calibre is the closest thing I can find.
It sounds like you want Sony's Reader software for PC or Mac (no Linux, but you didn't say you use Linux so I'm assuming you don't). It will sync documents to your T1 and should have collection functionality as well. Basically everything you need for basic syncing and management of your reader. Why try to make Calibre fit a scenario that it wasn't designed for, when there's already perfectly good software to do what you want already?
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