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I don't like to contradict the experts but my experience is that the advice is overly restrictive.
My extensive experience with Dropbox is that if you store your Calibre library in a Dropbox folder on your local machine but NEVER make changes to the folder other than through the local machine copy of Calibre, everything works fine--the Dropbox folder acts as a mirror in that case. I've done this for years.
I also used Calibre Companion and several alternatives this way for a while without trouble. (I think some of them may have added a file or two to the Dropbox folder, but the added file didn't affect Calibre's operation)
In this set up, I have had no trouble accessing the Dropbox files to download to my Android devices. Similarly, opening the "Path" from Calibre and using the "Send" options in the Windows shell does not seem to cause any issues.
YMMV
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