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Originally Posted by lohtse
Should have said 44000(corrected it..)
The odd dup file but I do mean the odd one....
As to the additional folders and sub folders wish it was an exaggeration but calibre creates a folder adds a copy of the ebook then adds extra files!!! so I have a completely new folder with all my books in there too... I tried coping a few files to the calibre folder and again it did the same leaving the original in the folder too...so even in that folder you have two copies of each ebook...
So there's a lot of wasted space as a result....
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It only copies one copy of the book to the folder and there is a way of making it delete the original although I am not sure you want to do that. As I said I find the extra files annoying although I manage to survive
Additional copies of a book are produced on conversion to another format obviously. If you convert epub to mobi, you would expect to have one of each, and you can turn off the original file keeping option on converting to the same format if you choose.
I don't have half as many ebooks as you do but 44,000 is a much easier figure to envisage. And I do have a
lot of disk storage. For me todays gigabyte is inconsequential. My first hard drive was 10 megabyte and that seemed a lot. Today I can by 50 terabyte for less money. So my perspective is different.
I think that if you use calibre on a smaller subset of your books and see how it works out that you will be glad you did. And choosing not to use calibre is perfectly fine as well. Whatever floats your boat.
Helen