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Originally Posted by lalebarde
Until now - before installing calibre - I have had an orginized directory tree with many pdf and chm. If I use the "Add Books" fonction, will it actually make a copy in another place ("the storage location you specified") ?
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Yes. The storage location being the library folder Calibre asks for.
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If I choose my directory root as calibre bookshelf, am I going to get a mess ?
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Yes. Don't do that. I think Calibre even warns against that when creating a library.
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I wouldn't like that it change my directory tree not the place where my books are, nor have two or more copies of my books.
So my question is : how does "Add books" works exactly ?
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Like it advertises in the help text you referenced: It copies the book into the Calibre internal library, reads the metadata and enters the book into its own database. The book it copies from is left untouched.
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My wish would be it keeps every book at the place they are and put their path in the database.
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That's not possible with Calibre. You do have a few options, though:
- Use Calibre to access your books and (this is important) don't touch the library folder
- Use Calibre to edit the metadata to your liking and export the books to a second folder structure that you can access as you like. You can very flexibly specify the layout of this structure in Calibre. You still shouldn't touch Calibre's library folder.