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Originally Posted by BobKat
A couple of friends have given me their libraries they made in calibre.
Not sure how many , if any, duplicates there are. One told me to copy the library to the calibre folder and use the switch library folder to point calibre to that folder.
So if I have two or more already done libraries, am I better off making seperate folders and seperate libraries? or is is ok to highlight that folder with the add books function from calibre and add one library to the other?
I hope I am making sense. I am still trying to figure out how things are put together here.
If there is a library, I take it there is a data file of some sort that has all the book organization such as author, series, genre, etc... information on it?
Guess I am trying to figure out if I use someones library and use the add books function, would I lose the info that that person has set up? or would it matter?
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Each Calibre Library (fbase folder) is SEPERATE. Never insert files into the Library folder Except by using Calibre (GUI or CLI). The base folder is the one that contains
metadata.db and authors folders. They are
Logically Intertwined
Structure (custom columns) differences is a good reason to consider seperate libraries.
You can start out with Seperates, then switch (use the Library Icon arrow) Select books: Right click: Copy to Library (with a Delete is optional) to best organize into a single Library.
Calibre can easily handle many thousand books in a single library