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How to create a library without creating copies?
I have some e-books (mostly pdfs) and I'd like to make a library of them. I found out that Calibre makes copies of the originals and put them into different folders, instead of storing its original path. I don't quite understand why does it need to mess up the hierarchy I'm using, but I can tag files and all, so if it works, fine. But! I tried to find an option to remove the original when adding a book to the library, after the copy was made, but I couldn't find anything like that. I have like gigs of e-books needed to be sorted, and I don't want to waste the same amount of space on copies, just for the structure. Also, instead of the slow copying Calibre could alternatively move the files to their correct places.
I tried to solve this, but I couldn't, so I'd like to get some suggestions how I should do it the most practical way. Thanks! |
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Just dump the whole directory into Calibre and delete the original directory. You can then tag them at your leisure.
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Having said that, most people might prefer to have the original kept around until they have checked the copy in Calibre and done any tidying up of metadata, etc. Once this has been done a manual delete of the original can be done outside Calibre. |
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