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Originally Posted by Adoby
Warning: Make sure that all your devices have the same case sensitivity. For instance all Windows or all Linux. Otherwise your Calibre library may slowly deteriorate with orphan books and database entries. The reason is that some operating systems / file systems don't care about UPPER lower case in file names, but some do care very much.
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I've found that the most useful way to use Calibre is to keep Calibre on a portable drive that can be moved between systems and use it for library maintenance tasks only. My workflow:
1) Download and import the book into Calibre Portable on my external HD
2) Tweak metadata
3) Save the book into my library folder structure
All the syncing is done from the library folder structure, so I never have to worry about Calibre interacting oddly with anything, and there's no risk of library issues. It was also really helpful the one time my Calibre install went completely bonkers and lost a bunch of books.