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Originally Posted by ATimson
I think the reason people have problems grasping that is because that's not how it works; it's not a black box, it's a transparent one. A truly black box would be keeping the files as binary blobs in the database.
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You can open binary blobs, black boxes and transparent ones. You just don't need to.
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It's also not how, say, music library software works. Yes, software like iTunes can keep your files organized on disk, but it doesn't force you to like Calibre does.
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I agree that music software is different, but music software I've used doesn't have the ability to run a remote server or export with a filename that I choose to a directory I choose with naming based on the metadata while supporting multiple different players, each with a different naming convention. I just don't see any forcing going on, other than that it needs its own copy of the ebook to serve out.
I understand that people are used to going directly to the folder their books are in, and when they see Calibre using a folder, they try to do the same thing, and object when they don't see the folder and file names they want. That's how it initially struck me, too, but that's not Calibre's fault.