[Doranwen]

I'd given up on using Calibre for anything but conversions long ago, but I figured I might as well ask to see if this has even been considered in the intervening years:

Is there any way to use the features of Calibre without having it move or copy ebooks for me? I have my own extensive directory structure (with thousands of ebooks and related files in them) that is quite idiosyncratic (fiction books by author, except for children's, which are buried in an entirely different area; nonfiction by topic/subject, which is also quite idiosyncratic in how I have it organized). I absolutely do NOT want a program copying books where I don't want them, trying to duplicate the library, etc. I'm perfectly happy with where they are!

It *would* be nice, however, if there was a way to more easily search books, search *within* books, etc. (I'm wishing I could search within a set of ebooks I have, but I don't know a program that can do it, and my Linux Mint OS currently doesn't have a suitable way of searching within and bringing up passages.) But every time I see "oh, you can do this with Calibre" I'm brought once more to the "ugh, there's absolutely no way I can live with it trying to move/copy files on me".

So I ask - can that be turned OFF at all? I would honestly love to be able to add folders for it to scan - but NOT actually move or copy the books within - and then be able to organize a database of the books, launch them from within it, etc. Calibre would be neat if it didn't try to take over my organization for me. :P