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Old 03-06-2024, 07:16 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by DTRAIN3005 View Post
In other applications like video editing apps, the library is "virtual pointer" to specific location of the file. Once you really need to use the file, you can just "mount" the specific storage medium or hard drive. The library is just the metadata that is being managed and pointing to the various locations of the files.
Calibre doesn't work this way and never will, by the initial decision of the developer. There are various ways to store only metadata and the file path in the library, as other posters have suggested, but when adding a book, Calibre will always copy the file to its library. There's no changing that.
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