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Originally Posted by HarryT
You could of course add a custom column to Calibre to record the original source. (I know that you know this, but people new to Calibre may not  ). |
Actually it isn't so much to keep track of where the book came from, but rather to be able to make it easier to back up the books, and reload if I need to. It was also a way to make sure that I hadn't forgotten to any books.
It was also handy back before the various Calibre plugins came around. It allowed me to set up scripts to remove the DRM for Kindle and Adobe back when Sony was still selling and had a few books that Amazon didn't. Also, it's pretty handy with Baen books since their monthly bundles tend to have a lot of duplicates. It was real handy when Sony shut down their ebook store and I was checking to make sure I had downloaded all the books that I had purchased.
So there were originally different reasons for different ebook stores and once I started doing so, I just kept it in place.