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Originally Posted by theducks
The single most important advantage of the Calibre Library storage: Integrity
When media is spread willy-nilly, Auditing becomes a significant obstacle.
Those pesky users, move/rename/delete things all the time. Unlike MP3's, all user metadata is NOT kept inside the books (or even remotely standard on what THEY save)
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Quite correct. A chronic theme on Lr boards involves repairing things after a user moved, renamed, or otherwise disturbured a file outside of Lr's own controls. Lr looses track of such files and you must manually point Lr to the file's new location or name, and if not done correctly Lr will loose track of any metadata updates that weren't manually written to the file before the mistake and can loose track of the files editing instructions.
Calibre is a strick taskmaster, but it protects the user from himself as a result. I like and can deal with Lr's "freedom", but prefer to let calibre handle my ebooks. At least calibre doesn't actually hide my ebooks in some archive like MacOSX Photos does. If calibre ever goes belly up, I can still get to my ebooks easily.