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Old 08-19-2009, 12:34 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Why? The reason that calibre creates copies is to give users the choice of exclusively using calibre or not. If you want to exclusively use calibre, simply delete the originals, then there is no problem with editing files from the calibre directory structure.
Yes, there is. You might want to have another structure. And you might want to be able to just copy the structure directly to a reader. And for me a directory structure must be suitable for navigating using dired in Emacs. And so on.

I mostly use command line programs. Sometimes I use a GUI program. It seems to me that Calibre is not designed for mixed use of command line programs and a GUI. From my point of view the data representation should be optimized for command line use. And than the GUI has to use this structure.
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