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Originally Posted by theducks
Simple answer: NO
Your proposed, incremental method has basic flaws.
If you tag (any method) and send only once, the record (book) never gets revisited upon metadata changes that affect that book.
If you add/delete a format: No change to your archive
Calibre is a DB with tight linkage to the file system. This pair is 'A Calibre Library'. Doing stuff piecemeal, can break the linkages, leaving orphans (obsolete files/folders) or othe damage in its wake.
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Make sense. i guess that upon metadata change one should re-save the file to disk (potentially deleting the previous one), which would imply having some sort of modification timestamp , and export timestamp together with the previous export filename/filepath.
I see that developers probably do not care about such feature, so okay
(as for the multi format, i consider multiple formats of a book really different books)