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Old 03-31-2009, 10:27 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by Anny View Post
Would you advise using different directories on the PC for Calibre & Sony Library or putting ebooks into the same one?
Calibre creates its own library with its own copies of books you add to it. You should leave that library alone and not commingle it with the Sony library. But the sources files can be anywhere. For example, I keep most of my source files in My Documents > My Ebooks. My Calibre Library folder is a subfolder of that one. So anytime I download books I put them first in My Documents > My Ebooks. Then if I want to add them to the Calibre Library, I do that, and Calibre makes its own copies, named in a standard fashion from the metadata, and stored in the Calibre Library folder.

The Sony Library puts books in My Documents > eBooks. You can add those to Calibre, too, and they'll be duplicated in the Calibre Library. Except now they'll have comprehensible filenames, instead of weird, indecipherable names.

The source files stay right where they are, and don't get changed at all by this process.
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