About the location of the Calibre Library

goldmosh · 05-03-2022, 05:39 AM

Hi!
I am new to Calibre and have a beginner's question to ask.

From what I read in the Manual, I understand that each e-book shown in the Calibre library/catalog is a copy of the original e-book. I keep my e-books in cloud folders (in Amazon's Kindle, in GoogleDrive and in OneDrive). I do not want to waste disk space in the local disk drive of my personal computer; that way, having all my e-books stored in cloud services, I may access them from any device.

I want to have only one copy of every e-book, managed by Calibre. Then, before I start to build my Calibre Library/libraries, I want to ask you the following:
(1) Is it possible that in the Calibre Library will not be stored copies of my e-books, but links or shortcuts to them?
(2) If your answer to (1) is negative, is it possible to locate the Calibre Library in a cloud folder, instead of a local folder?
(3) I understand that I may create several libraries under Calibre, right? May I locate all of them in cloud folders?

Thank you very much.
Moshe Goldstein

Karellen · 05-03-2022, 06:06 AM

Calibre does not work reliably across networks.
See... https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...rked-drive-nas

theducks · 05-03-2022, 10:00 AM

No to all 3.

You can have as many LOCAL drive Libraries as you want

(but there are usually better ways to get the results).
They can be anywhere on your system EXCEPT you can NOT put anything else inside the Library folder.
(folk will say, THEY put it in the cloud...But it works till it fails someday.)

Virtual Libraries are VIEWS (all in a single Metadata.db) of the base Library, not individual.

Once added to Calibre, just archive the original off site. The copy method used allows for burps along the process, and a safe retry.

Gimme a break. save drive space? Multi Terabyte (spinning) drives are under $100
(A 12T drive sells for less than my first Seagate 40M HD cost me , no adjustment for inflation). Clone software comes with most retail drives, I found Clonezilla did the job on a dual boot system, when the 2 common ones failed to do all partitions.

05-03-2022, 05:39 AM	#1
goldmosh Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2022 Location: Jerusalem, Israel. Device: none	About the location of the Calibre Library Hi! I am new to Calibre and have a beginner's question to ask. From what I read in the Manual, I understand that each e-book shown in the Calibre library/catalog is a copy of the original e-book. I keep my e-books in cloud folders (in Amazon's Kindle, in GoogleDrive and in OneDrive). I do not want to waste disk space in the local disk drive of my personal computer; that way, having all my e-books stored in cloud services, I may access them from any device. I want to have only one copy of every e-book, managed by Calibre. Then, before I start to build my Calibre Library/libraries, I want to ask you the following: (1) Is it possible that in the Calibre Library will not be stored copies of my e-books, but links or shortcuts to them? (2) If your answer to (1) is negative, is it possible to locate the Calibre Library in a cloud folder, instead of a local folder? (3) I understand that I may create several libraries under Calibre, right? May I locate all of them in cloud folders? Thank you very much. Moshe Goldstein

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05-03-2022, 06:06 AM	#2
Karellen Wizard Posts: 1,611 Karma: 9500498 Join Date: Sep 2021 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Libra 2	Calibre does not work reliably across networks. See... https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq...rked-drive-nas

05-03-2022, 10:00 AM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,914 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	No to all 3. You can have as many LOCAL drive Libraries as you want (but there are usually better ways to get the results). They can be anywhere on your system EXCEPT you can NOT put anything else inside the Library folder. (folk will say, THEY put it in the cloud...But it works till it fails someday.) Virtual Libraries are VIEWS (all in a single Metadata.db) of the base Library, not individual. Once added to Calibre, just archive the original off site. The copy method used allows for burps along the process, and a safe retry. Gimme a break. save drive space? Multi Terabyte (spinning) drives are under $100 (A 12T drive sells for less than my first Seagate 40M HD cost me , no adjustment for inflation). Clone software comes with most retail drives, I found Clonezilla did the job on a dual boot system, when the 2 common ones failed to do all partitions.

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