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alsosprach99 · 05-09-2010, 02:10 PM

Hi, everyone,

Today's Washington Post mentioned Calibre, so I decided to look it over.

I really like it a lot except that I have gigabytes of ebooks and do not understand why Calibre copies the ebooks into a folder on my C drive (I have an external 500GB drive for ebooks). Is there some way Calibre can catalog the ebooks from the existing files on my external hard drive and not makes copies of them? Can I delete the files from the C drive or would that destroy everything? Or should I install Calibre on the external hard drive and run it from there?

One feature I really like is the viewer which has such great capabilities. I also think fetching info from the server via ISBN is quite fast. It would be nice if one could do batches of ISBNs though. Have not yet tried the conversion process (which is why the Post recommended it) and look forward to getting rid of a lot of rtf and html books that way.

Great program, I think! So far have only cataloged/added 55 books, but that has taken up over 1GB on my C drive, so hope there is a solution to my question.

Sam

05-09-2010, 02:10 PM	#1
alsosprach99 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2010 Device: sony	Can I use Calibre to catalog ebooks, but not make copies of them? Hi, everyone, Today's Washington Post mentioned Calibre, so I decided to look it over. I really like it a lot except that I have gigabytes of ebooks and do not understand why Calibre copies the ebooks into a folder on my C drive (I have an external 500GB drive for ebooks). Is there some way Calibre can catalog the ebooks from the existing files on my external hard drive and not makes copies of them? Can I delete the files from the C drive or would that destroy everything? Or should I install Calibre on the external hard drive and run it from there? One feature I really like is the viewer which has such great capabilities. I also think fetching info from the server via ISBN is quite fast. It would be nice if one could do batches of ISBNs though. Have not yet tried the conversion process (which is why the Post recommended it) and look forward to getting rid of a lot of rtf and html books that way. Great program, I think! So far have only cataloged/added 55 books, but that has taken up over 1GB on my C drive, so hope there is a solution to my question. Sam