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Silanah · 03-14-2016, 01:34 AM

I have a very large collection of books and documents - more than 8000. I want to add them all into Calibre and organize them properly. I have some questions regarding this.

(Windows 8.1 laptop)

1. When I add books to Calibre, are they produced in a different location on my computer? For example if I have my books in G/Ebooks, will they be duplicated in C/Documents/Calibre Library? Can I configure Calibre to work like the music management program Musicbee? It doesn't physically move the music but allows editing of metadata.

2. I intend to convert a number of books and documents. Having done a couple of trial conversions, I find that both the previous and the new formats are stored in the Calibre Library. So if I converted 5 Mobi files to Epub they would all be taking up disk space. Do I have to delete them manually or can I configure Calibre to do it for me?

3. How smooth is the conversion from PDFs to Epub? I have a number of articles and essays in PDF which I would much rather have in epub.

I am sorry if these are very basic or obvious questions. I have only ever used Calibre for conversion and I don't want to make a mistake that will cause me to lose my files. I would love some help/advice in setting up my library.

03-14-2016, 01:34 AM	#1
Silanah Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2016 Device: none	Calibre Newbie - Creating a library from a large collection of ebooks I have a very large collection of books and documents - more than 8000. I want to add them all into Calibre and organize them properly. I have some questions regarding this. (Windows 8.1 laptop) 1. When I add books to Calibre, are they produced in a different location on my computer? For example if I have my books in G/Ebooks, will they be duplicated in C/Documents/Calibre Library? Can I configure Calibre to work like the music management program Musicbee? It doesn't physically move the music but allows editing of metadata. 2. I intend to convert a number of books and documents. Having done a couple of trial conversions, I find that both the previous and the new formats are stored in the Calibre Library. So if I converted 5 Mobi files to Epub they would all be taking up disk space. Do I have to delete them manually or can I configure Calibre to do it for me? 3. How smooth is the conversion from PDFs to Epub? I have a number of articles and essays in PDF which I would much rather have in epub. I am sorry if these are very basic or obvious questions. I have only ever used Calibre for conversion and I don't want to make a mistake that will cause me to lose my files. I would love some help/advice in setting up my library.