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@cybmole my processes are not dissimilar to yours - after much to-ing and fro-ing (eschwartz can attest to some of it) this is the 'best solution' for me.
I keep a sparse clone of my library - by convention its named <library>Info (eg the _Main library has a corresponding _MainInfo folder). It contains Author and Book folders with the same names as are used in the library folder, but only for those Authors and Books for which I want to keep something I can't or don't want to keep in the library folders. Such as the original download, a different edition, reviews, emails to/from author, links to author website, facebook page. amazon page, obits, pictures... whatever.
I link the xxxxInfo\author folders to the Link field in Manage Authors, and I link the book folders to a comments-like Notes column that I show in Book Details panel. So I click on Author name in the Book Details panel to open the Author info folder - if there isn't a folder it'll do a Google Search. And I click on the Book Info link to open its folder - if there isn't a book info folder there won't be a link to click (so I have to use my heels - groan)
Regarding the restoration of ORIGINAL_EPUB. How often would you want to do that - if it not very, then why does it have to be slick.
If I need to 'edit' a book extensively then I copy the relevant file (DOCX, EPUB or the occasional PDF) to the book info folder, I can work on there just as I please without disturbing the library - I flag the book as being 'Under Edit' in a Status column.
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