Thread: Long gap between record 0 and record 1
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Old 02-04-2021, 09:12 AM   #2
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I remember seeing speculation that it is unused space left there to allow changes to be made to the book's metadata in place by only rewriting record zero, avoiding the need to rewrite the whole file.
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