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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
I'm not understanding what it is that you're doing that means you need to access your ebooks outside of calibre.
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I have more than one program that need access to it, and I regularly share files with other local people. I need control over the filenames. And I get that, Calibre doesn't touch my original files, it just copies them over (which I consider wasteful in terms of space and am looking for a way to modify that.)
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The need to keep duplicates of the files is simple: one set lives inside of calibre's "black box". Just imagine that it's a ginormous database and the files are being stored in some kind of ebook-specific BLOBs, and pretend they're not human-accessible at all.
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Yes, but that's just one way of implementing. It would be (almost) as easy to store nothing but the metadata and a pointer to the original file. In fact, I am currently experimenting with symbolic links, which shows some promise.