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Originally Posted by tspear
Ok, I am very likely over thinking this.
I have a number of books that hit one of these situations:
1. I bought a book that is part of a series. I then later bought an omnibus which included the book I already own.
2. I have an updated version of a book which was expanded.
3. The eBook includes as sample of another book at the end. I want to remove the sample from the version I use but keep the original ePub in case I want read the sample. (I am planning to use the ePub splitter plugin, unless someone has a better suggestion)
For some reason, I want to keep the meta-data in the first two cases. However, I want to effectively "hide" the book from my regular catalog, by somehow making it an alternate version of the Omnibus, or some sort of archive.
For the third case, I think those I can keep as additional ePub files, but I have not figured out how that works.
Any suggestions on some feature of Calibre and Kobo that I am overlooking or how to handle these use cases?
Tim
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A recently added feature allows the storage of additional files for books. I'm not aware of any formal doco, but it's simple enough:
Add the the Open Book folder tool to a toolbar, select the Open book data folder option, if it doesn't exist already, a sub folder with the name 'data' will be created in the book folder, the 'data' folder will be opened:
You can add, edit, and delete files in the folder without any calibre imposed restriction on names, file types or number of files. All calibre is providing is a place to store files. Sub-folders are supported.
BTW: there is nothing to prevent a library having two or more records with identical title and author; calibre uses the internal 'id' column to identify the book metadata entry in the database and to differentiate the book folder (that's the '(1)' in the screenshot).
BR