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Originally Posted by HailCardassia
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?
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Calibre duplicates the files and stores them in its own folder structure. If you want to make use of calibre's excellent metadata management, you will have to find space to allow calibre to make a copy of all your books. And then let calibre manage the book files.
Feel free to keep your original folders untouched. Calibre won't pay them any attention. But I think you'll find that allowing calibre to manage files while you worry about the metadata is a much better way to invest your time in your ebook library.
Storage is cheap. 30GB isn't a lot now.
If you ever do need your books in a particular format in a particular folder structure, you can export a copy from calibre, with all the books updated with the latest metadata.