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scylla2 · 04-13-2009, 10:28 AM

I downloaded and installed the newest version of Calibre last night, hoping it would give me the ability to manage and catalog my huge ebook collection.

My ebooks are located on an external hard drive and occupy about 40GB of space. When Calibre asked for the library location I pointed it to the ebook directory on the external drive. When it began to collect and catalog the ebook collection, however, I noticed it was copying all the ebooks into new directories as it was cataloging them. This made the process extremely slow (over an hour just to get through authors beginning with the letter A) and, of course made my ebooks occupy double the HD space that they should.

Is there a way to get Calibre to go through my ebook collection without making its own copies of everything? This seems similar to iTunes where there's an option to "copy music files to iTunes music folder". Unfortunately, unlike in iTunes, with Calibre there doesn't seem to be a way to turn this off.

04-13-2009, 10:28 AM	#1
scylla2 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2009 Device: GEB1150	New Calibre user with problems... I downloaded and installed the newest version of Calibre last night, hoping it would give me the ability to manage and catalog my huge ebook collection. My ebooks are located on an external hard drive and occupy about 40GB of space. When Calibre asked for the library location I pointed it to the ebook directory on the external drive. When it began to collect and catalog the ebook collection, however, I noticed it was copying all the ebooks into new directories as it was cataloging them. This made the process extremely slow (over an hour just to get through authors beginning with the letter A) and, of course made my ebooks occupy double the HD space that they should. Is there a way to get Calibre to go through my ebook collection without making its own copies of everything? This seems similar to iTunes where there's an option to "copy music files to iTunes music folder". Unfortunately, unlike in iTunes, with Calibre there doesn't seem to be a way to turn this off.