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Old 04-05-2023, 05:38 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by ownedbycats View Post
Shortcut files did use to add directly (I remember running into this when adding a manual from the start menu), but this was changed.
You can add a Windows shortcut (.lnk file) to an existing book by copying it to the clipboard in Windows File Explorer (Ctrl+C) and pasting into the book via the Add books->Add files to selected book records from clipboard option - which for me is Alt+Shift+V.

If you 'View' the LNK file, Windows will open the target in the default program for the link target file type - e.g. a shortcut to a PDF in Acrobat, to an ODT in Writer, to a folder in File Explorer.

One of the downsides is that there's no visibility of the target file type within calibre - you need to open the book folder to see that. But if you only used shortcuts for supplementary folders you could find a png of a folder in chains and put that in the mimetype folder as lnk.png

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