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Originally Posted by BetterRed
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Calibre's proprietary Export/Import feature was developed to facilitate moving calibre (libraries and configuration) between platforms (hardware, operating system, and file system), e.g from an 'old' computer to a 'new' computer. It can be used for backup/recovery, but, because it backs up entire libraries it is slow - which is a deterrent to doing frequent backups, particularly on large (byte-wise) libraries. And you can't easily recover single items (books, formats, covers, config files) it's all or nothing.
BR
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that was what i planned to add but BR got there first
much depends on future usage,
if you are in the habit of messing up and needing to recover specific books, then having a simple folder copy is better
if you main reason is to move or replicate the entire library on other devices then use export import
if you are not really paranoid, but the universe
is out to get you - do both
