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Originally Posted by DNSB
I suspect that you are in a small minority here. Most people use calibre as a library and document storage tool. We likely have hard drives that are large enough to handle deleting less than 100 megabytes of files without leaving us running low on disk space.
For me, again I like the option. It makes restoring a file a lot easier, takes a minimal amount of space and auto-cleans up in anything from 1 to 99 (or more) days.
How many books do you convert and trash every day? Given that my current library structure contains about 13,000 books, cover images and .opf files in ~13.5GB of space which is about 7% of my disk space, I can't see your calibre installation and libraries chewing up a massive percentage of your disk space.
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I believe the difference is in the book types we use. I have technical books fills with schematics that are over a gigabyte. Each.
But that’s not the point. How about a real world comparison. When you finish dinner you put the waste in the sink, not the trash. That’s exactly what moving books to another folder is.
It’s a matter of preference.
As for document management;
Maybe not directly, but definitely publicly: Calibre was originally marketed as Calibre
ebook converter.
That’s the title when looking it up on multiple free-software sites to this day.
Calibre, being extensible, has the widest selection of input and output formats for a GUI converter. For many, I’m clearly not alone, the converter is the primary use.
In my case, I use it over eCanCrusher for one reason. The software is easy and capable of creating ePubs using my chosen dedicated font, over ride other font and display functions, and download my news feeds directly to ePub files using my default formatting choices.