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Originally Posted by MCSmarties
I must say that I don't find Calibre's "save to disk" feature all that useful. Why? Because it's a real PITA to import books back into calibre from such a folder.
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Actually it couldn't be much simpler - you just use the second option down in the "Add" dropdown menu, of adding one book per folder. That gives you the book, its cover and all the associated metadata and even your custom columns, assuming your schema is the same in the calibre library you are importing into.
It is how I share books with my parents - I use Save to disk into a Dropbox folder, and they then import using Add.
But as others have said it isn't the preferred way of backing up your calibre library - backup the entire calibre library folder instead, to make sure you don't lose all your other calibre library database data that isn't specific to a particular book (e.g. saved searches, etc).