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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Originally, there was no directory structure, both the metadata and the files themselves were stored in the db. This was changed for the following reasons:
1) Performance of incremental backups with large libraries
2) The ability to have read-only access to your ebook files via the file system, if needed.
3) Robustness - database corruption now only leads to loss of metadata and even that can be recovered via the OPF files.
4) Large file limitations. Depending on file system and OS a single file can sometimes be restricted to a few GB in size.
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Books where stored in database ? Yup, not very convenient.
Tanks for these explanations.
Tanks chaley too. That the kind of things that should go in this topic :
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=119175
Rather than "shut the hell up", or "folders are such an old way to organize your stuff".