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Originally Posted by citac
It's those backups on my computer that drive me crazy. I have a folder for ebooks. When I import them into calibre, it backs them up - duplicates them - in it's own folder.
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It's all in your point of view. You currently have the same point of view I had when I started, and that many others do. You think of your books as being the book you got before you put it into Calibre. You think of the book in Calibre's database as a copy or a "backup".
I don't think of it that way any more. My "book" is what's in Calibre's database. The backup is what I had before I gave it to Calibre. I can delete that backup, or not, but once it's in Calibre, I never need to refer to the original book again.
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I think I've begun rambling. Does any of this make any sense to you?
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Oh yes! You're going through the same process I went through. I can clearly remember first being confused about the "Library". I thought it wanted to know where I kept my source books.
Then I was confused about the "Delete" command. I thought Calibre was going to delete my source books. That's what it said it was going to do - delete it from my computer. Then I was pissed off at the directory structure. It was stupid to store books sorted by author first name. Plus, it was annoying to have all those duplicates it kept making ........
Oh yes, your comments make sense to me. Eventually, you may switch to the viewpoint that I've described - where you think of your books as safely in Calibre's database and available whenever and wherever you want them, with whatever name or folder structure you want them in .... or maybe not.
