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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Wow... either you have ALOT of books or a VERY small laptop drive if you are worried about the space the ebook files will take up on your hard drive.
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I have a decent-sized laptop drive, but this is my work computer and the company puts lots of stuff on it, leaving very little for me -- several Gig, don't get me wrong, just not unlimited space.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Why put them in "two" locations on the drive?
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That was my original question. I must have the book on my hard drive before I can import it into Calibre -- and Calibre stores a copy in its database. So for books that I'm simply wanting to load onto the Reader such as those downloaded from MobileRead, Feedbooks, or Baen -- if I can load them using normal "mounted disk" techniques, then I can avoid having the second copy stored in Calibre.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
You only need them in one location, the calibre database. Do a save-to-disk to a thumbdrive or other backup media to archive them.
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This is what I plan to do for those books I have created using Calibre. But your question above is the pertinent one for books that require no conversion. If it's safe to load books onto the Sony Reader without using Calibre to do it, then I avoid having to be concerned about managing the space used on disk.
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I manage books for my Kindle in a very simple manner -- initial download to the laptop, push to Kindle, move books off laptop to permanent storage as convenient.
The Kindle nearest analogue to Calibre's loading function is MobiPocket Reader. And since I don't use MobiPocket Reader to move books onto and off of the Kindle, I only have to remember to delete books from MobiPocket Reader if I open them for reading on the computer. Similarly, if I want to read a BBeB book on the computer, I would load it into Calibre to use its viewer.
I know I can put the books into Calibre's database, but it's just another step and if I can use the same processes for both book readers, I'm less likely to screw something up!