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abrogard · 11-24-2022, 04:17 AM

Not sure where to put this. General question really. No 'general' area.

I thought Calibre copied into itself every book in its library. So once a book was in a Calibre library we had a safe copy of it. I've been acting on that basis.

Now I open a library on an external drive that I've brought with me to a new locations and I keep trying to read books that it tells me 'have no available formats' !

So that looks like it simply copies a link to the book.
Except that many books in that library ARE there!
So what's the story?

What does it do? And how come it has done this?

11-24-2022, 04:17 AM	#1
abrogard Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2017 Device: kindle	How Does It Work? Copies Books or Not? Not sure where to put this. General question really. No 'general' area. I thought Calibre copied into itself every book in its library. So once a book was in a Calibre library we had a safe copy of it. I've been acting on that basis. Now I open a library on an external drive that I've brought with me to a new locations and I keep trying to read books that it tells me 'have no available formats' ! So that looks like it simply copies a link to the book. Except that many books in that library ARE there! So what's the story? What does it do? And how come it has done this?