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Originally Posted by haertig
My Calibre library stats are below. The majority of my books are stored redundantly in both AZW3 and EPUB format. The ZIP files are audiobooks (each is a sequence of MP3s). The PDFs are varied - some are simple books, some are picture heavy textbooks, and some are piano sheetmusic.
You can see that the vast majority of my storage usage are the audiobooks. 5085 EPUBs = 1.5Gb compared to 167 audiobooks = 54Gb!!! The PDFs aren't too bad either, 77 PDFs = 1Gb.
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Some books I buy come in all 3 formats: PDF, ePub and AZW3/Kindle format. But since I have a Kobo Forma and have no plans to buy a Kindle ereader, I just add the ePub to my Calibre.
I initially added an audiobook as a zip fle into the entry for the corresponding book. But because they take up so much space, I just add them to my online cloud account.
The reason why I want to keep my Calibre library small is because I often export/back-up my library to the cloud (in case my SSD drive fails). So that one audiobook zip file has now been removed from my Calibre library. Instead, I just created a tag "audiobook in cloud".
haertig, is your code for use on a linux computer? (I'm away from my linux laptop so can't try it out today.)