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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Pretty sure, I would have have said that .lnk files can be added to an existing 'book', but not they can be used to create a new book.
If you try to create a book by adding a .lnk file to a library then Windows jumps up and does its job, hands the shortcut target to calibre just like if you open a shortcut to an image file in an image viewer.
Been ever thus.
If you renamed the .lnk files (e.g. to .mylink files) you could create the books with those files, and then rename them back to .lnk files in the book folders, drag the .lnk file into the book details panel, and remove the reference to the now non-existent mylink file from calibre. But boy-oh-boy what a palaver.
Why don't you want to keep the zips in the calibre library - a file is a file is a file wherever it is, and a calibre library is a just a common-or-garden folder with bog-standard sub-folders and sub-sub-folders.
BR
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It definitely worked as a .lnk import before. Did A LOT of them. But a quick fix of renaming the suffix for the file would be handy, but it takes some steps I prefer to avoid. They are really just "placeholders" where the file names are already setup based on the folders allowing easy addition of entries rather than one by one. It's just a project I've been way from for awhile. I was excited to return but ran into this problem.
It's a long story as to why I don't store the zips. Not worth going through here. I promise it's more efficient in the end and has storage limitations (even though I do often try to go back how I can do it in Calibre, it still comes back to not being the best method for me).