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Old 04-05-2012, 07:03 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Calibre is intended to manage self contained documents.

I would avoid trying to link to a Calibre managed file, there are just too many ways to fracture the current files linkage.
I don't want "to link to a Calibre managed file", I appreciate the folly of doing that.

I want to put a link in a Calibre managed book folder to another resource, eg a spreadsheet with the books lexical analysis, I would use a symbolic link.

Obviously this is not doable, and reading similar threads I suspect it will never be doable.

Calibre may have embraced Open Source, but it's ignored Open Data, so it's a long way from being an Open System.

If Calibre is predicated on its data is NOT being accessible using the host file system tools; then why, in Windows at least, does it default to putting its data into Users/BetterRed/Documents, rather than Program Data, I assume something similar happens on other operating systems.

Never mind I'll try putting the symlink in a folder ADS

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