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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You can also use the Send To menu. In fact, a custom batch script could send a book to calibre using the cli and thus possibly avoid opening calibre if it is not open.
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I do most 'ad-hoc' adds this way, has the advantage that one can send just about any file type, eg MP3, MOV etc - including .LNK files which are hard (impossible ?) to add using Open File dialogues.
Drag drop is notoriously inaccurate - source of many/most 'calibre/windows/amazon etc ate my library, books, music, videos etc' complaints,
You could also send the file to the Autoadd folder if you have one - add a shortcut to that folder into the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo folder.
Putting calibre.exe into a file associations sounds dodgy to me. It has to be done for each file type - whereas a short cut in the Send To is one thing for all file types. Also 2nd, 3rd uses on the same file potentially creates the situation where you'll have duplicates. I'm not sure, but there may even be a scenario that it will overwrite the file that's already in the library - possibly the file that you just spent half a day slaving over a hot ebook editor to get rid of the cruft.
BR