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Originally Posted by DrChiper
The only difference I have noticed in using calibre portable and "normal" calibre is that calibre portable insists to have a "Calibre Library" folder in its install folder. Even when you delete it, because you have your library in another place, calibre portable will it just recreate it and will use it on startup as its default library. I never did understand why.  |
Not entirely correct. I renamed my "Calibre Library" to "Library - Main" and added a couple of other libraries in my Calibre Portable folder. As long as you're pointed to a library inside the Calibre Portable folder when you exit Calibre, no matter what the name of that library is, it will start with that library the next time you run Calibre Portable.
I know, I know. Splitting hairs. But the point is, you can actually have multiple libraries, as long as they're in the Calibre Portable folder.
As for why, my guess is it's because of relative paths. The assumption is that Calibre Portable is meant to be installed on an external hard drive or flash drive. In that environment, any library that you have to access with an absolute path will likely be in a different place if you move it to a different computer. For instance, if you plug in your external hard drive on one computer and your library is in G:\Library, then if you take that same hard drive to a different computer, your library might be in H:\Library.
It's different if you put your library inside your Calibre Portable folder. The program doesn't care whether your library is on the G drive or the H drive, because it knows to look for it in the Calibre Portable folder.