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Originally Posted by itimpi
I have over time transferred the majority of my library into Calibre and then removed the originals so I avoid duplication. Actually if anything I have reduced my reqirements as the transfer into Calibre has encouraged me to any duplicates thqat were in my original library.
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This describes my situation exactly. I have about 30% less space used than before. I found that I had two (and a half) very large overlapping groups of books (same formats). Those duplicates are now gone. I also had every single multiple author book stored as a duplicate for each individual author. Those duplicates are now gone. I also found a very large group of overlapping formats (same book different formats). Most of them were the result of a few massive automatic format conversion attempts I made a long time ago. I found all the books with that format created on the day I made those formats and deleted them. Calibre does a much better job of conversion, without all the garbage in the headers.
For a while I tried to keep my old folder system, but I wasn't using it, so I just compressed it up, burned it to a DVD and stored it away as a backup. I doubt I'll ever look at it again.