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Originally Posted by fpaulon
How can I set few paths to import only books but does not copy to calibre library folder (avoiding duplicate files in hard disk)?
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1. It's by design. The imports are in a database and only exist as visible ebook files because that is currently the best way to do it, and that's been true for databases since they were invented.
2. It's a good feature to have a copy.
3. A very basic laptop or computer might have 256 G of SSD or HDD. Some cheap laptops 768 G to 2T. About 5,000 ebooks is only a few 4K videos. A full text search database might a big proportion of the Calibre storage.
4. Forget that Calibre is storing visible copies. Treat the entiire calibre storage as local "black box" and don't look inside the library folder / directory.