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Originally Posted by HailCardassia
I need something to manage my very large e-book collection. I tried Calibre years ago and didn't really like it but there aren't really any better options out there and I need a media manager for my ebooks.
I know Calibre builds its own library but I have searched around and haven't really found an answer on how it does this. Does it duplicate the files on your system, rename and move them, or hardlink/symlink them to the new location?
I have certain folder structures that I don't want messed with as well as files that cannot be altered. I also have about 30gb of e-books so I'd rather not have it take up twice the space by Calibre keeping a separate library nor can I delete the would be superfluous original files.
So can I add the files to Calibre and have it automatically create the new library using hardlinks or should I create a hardlink copy of the original database and use that to plug into Calibre?
Alternatively if there is a program that can manage ebooks in a similar way to how Yac Reader library does comics I would greatly prefer that. I haven't been able to find anything that does though.
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The short answer is No.
I'm not sure I understand what your second paragraph is trying to suggest - what do you mean by a 'hardlink copy' of the 'original database' - what is a hardlink copy, apart from just another inode to the same data stream, and what is an 'original database'.
Have you considered any of the Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications, some of them work more like the way you'd prefer. Most come from an image management perspective, so they don't and are never likely to have the e-book specific features of calibre such a integration with ebook readers, ebook specific format shifting, ebook editing. Some of them have limited support for PDF formats. Wikipedia had a page that summarised the major DAM applications - but it's disappeared.
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