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Originally Posted by DTRAIN3005
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.
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Because video file is huge and can be severa thouand or a million times bigger. Files for professional video editing can also be 10x or more bigger than same duration DVD /BD/streaming/broadcast. Often video editing needs one or more dedicated drives and is not comparable to ebooks. I've done production of both.
Serious video libraries for palyout systems do include a copy of the video. A video editing app, is not a true video library. One without the files is like a lending /rental library for physical tapes or disks. Calibre isn't that kind of library.
Unless you have more ebooks than can be read in a life time storage is no an issue. Of course scanned PDFs can be big, but they are not real ebooks and still tiny compared to video.
Calibre manages the metadata and the content. Even my 2002 (22 year old) laptop still has enough space for 7,000 ebooks, though I don't use it now as it's XP and it won't even boot if any drive is more than 120 G Byte.
Unless you've a very budget PC or Chromebook, the entry level for laptop storage was 512 G Byte over 7 years ago.