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Originally Posted by Epsilon Rose
I feel like you have an unrealistic view of how computing worked in the 60s ... or how people used computers for most of the time since then.
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I used computers in the 60's. In the 70's I had my own home computers (4300 solder connections and you too could have your own personal computer). For me with a calibre library of ~16,000 ebooks, metadata search (title, series, author, etc.) is a necessity. Even when I had <500 books back in the 2010's, try to tailor a directory structure that made it easy to find books was a total pain. And yes, storing files in directory structures with no metadata is so 80s.
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Originally Posted by Epsilon Rose
Unless the "library" can not have the files for the books, and just stores data about them, the SD card needs to have the library.
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Given that in my current computer collection, the smallest hard drive is my Raspberry Pi with a 256GB NVMe drive and my 16,000 books take 41GB of space, I see no issues with keeping my calibre library local.
As for your worries about two libraries, the calibre library would be attached to your main computer. The SD card would be inserted into the computer and any new ebooks could be copied to the SD card. No need to have two copies on your computer.
You could also look at KOReader since it can use the calibre metadata file to search. You could set up your SD card as an device using Preferences => Tweaks => search for folder. Add the path to your SD card folder that will be used (i.e. F:/mylibrary where the SD card is mounted as drive F: and you want to use the mylibrary folder for your books. Update the ebooks on the card and move it back to your Boox.