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Kovidgoyal, I didn't say portable *MEANS* that. I said it *SHOULD* do that.
And again, not everything in this world is a USB flash drive. Lots of us use usb portable hard drives. They are cheaper, hold more, and are faster than flash drives. And in my experience, just as convenient with much less chance of being lost.
Putting temporary stuff like what Calibre generates onto a SSD C:\ drive is just plain wasteful. It's the same argument against putting them onto a USB flash drive, except that a SSD costs a lot more money and is much more valuable & useful.
The flash cells they use have the same write life span, except a SSD is better at hiding it because of the over provisioning they all do and tricks such as compression that some do.
If it was just a few K or Meg, then it would be irrelevant. But during conversions, cleanup etc., Calibre will generate far more than the size of the epub or mobi files it's working with. It adds up.
Even including something like a batch file like this would help
set TEMP=%CD%\Temp
set TMP=%TEMP%
Calibre-Portable.exe
and have a TEMP directory in the portable calibre directory.
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