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kovidgoyal · 08-21-2009, 09:22 PM

@dvs0826

1) calibre's folder structure is not flat. Have you actually used calibre?

2) Storing links in a database is extremely non-robust. Already with even the current scheme I get endless bug reports from people that mess with the file names in the folders and the calibre loses track of the files. I can only imagine how many more such bug reports I'd have to deal with if I let people keep their calibre libraries distributed all over the place. And there's there's the problem of different file systems having different file name and case conventions on different OSes, in different phases off the moon.

3) As for your use case of not being able to install programs on an office computer. It is perfectly possible to keep calibre *and* its library on a flash drive and run it off that

4) Not having enough disk space. Are you serious? In this day and age of 1TB hard drives?

So no, your use cases do not even come close to outweighing the disadvantage I outlined in (2)

08-21-2009, 09:22 PM	#86
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,378 Karma: 27230406 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@dvs0826 1) calibre's folder structure is not flat. Have you actually used calibre? 2) Storing links in a database is extremely non-robust. Already with even the current scheme I get endless bug reports from people that mess with the file names in the folders and the calibre loses track of the files. I can only imagine how many more such bug reports I'd have to deal with if I let people keep their calibre libraries distributed all over the place. And there's there's the problem of different file systems having different file name and case conventions on different OSes, in different phases off the moon. 3) As for your use case of not being able to install programs on an office computer. It is perfectly possible to keep calibre and its library on a flash drive and run it off that 4) Not having enough disk space. Are you serious? In this day and age of 1TB hard drives? So no, your use cases do not even come close to outweighing the disadvantage I outlined in (2)