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Originally Posted by itimpi
I find it does not as long as you add it as a book format via Calibre.
It easy to open the RAR (via Calibre) and then drag-drop a file from the RAR archive back into Calibre so that it knows it is there again.
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itimpi 
- that's true if you have WinRAR, you can drag it out of the RAR and drop it into the Book Details panel.** But
only if the extension is recognised by calibre as an ebook extension, in this context, it would seem that xxxx.ORIGINAL_EPUB is not an ebook extension.
Also you can't drag files out of a RAR and drop into the Book List via the WinRAR browser - not sure if that's a WinRAR or calibre issue.
So the only way out is to unpack the archive into a folder. If the RAR is in the book folder (which in this context it will be), the default location will be a subfolder in the book folder. You can then drag the ORIGINAL_EPUB from the newly created subfolder into the Book List. What happens next depends on the settings in Add books for dealing with duplicates - at worse you'll have to Merge books. Then you need to trash the subfolder that WinRAR created.
In the context of this discussion that's not what I'd call 'easy', at best I'd called it 'fiddlesome'. It might be overcome if calibre allowed drag/drop of non-ebook files into Book Details, but... the answer on that was... No. But even then it would only work if you have WinRAR.
BR
** BTW, you can't drag/drop ebook files out of a RAR to Book Details with Peazip, nor perhaps 7zip.