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(When I want to find a nonfiction book on a subject, but don't know which one - a common occurrence - I can browse the subject folder and check out the ones I like. I have no interest or time to spend hours (or days) tagging all of my many thousands of books so that I can find them the way I've already got them stored nicely. I remember most book titles and authors when it comes to re-reading, and I have a file manager (SpaceFM) with multiple panes and tabs open to various spots on my file system, which makes getting to any book I want just about as fast as typing it. If you let Calibre MANAGE thing its way, you can file (tag) books 47 ways from Sunday, and FIND them with a few mouse clicks, and send them off to your chosen destination (device or Mail account)Īctually, my method's not limited at all, except for not having a database for the rare times I want to look for a book that way. Calibre would be neat if it didn't try to take over my organization for me. So I ask - can that be turned OFF at all? I would honestly love to be able to add folders for it to scan - but NOT actually move or copy the books within - and then be able to organize a database of the books, launch them from within it, etc. (I'm wishing I could search within a set of ebooks I have, but I don't know a program that can do it, and my Linux Mint OS currently doesn't have a suitable way of searching within and bringing up passages.) But every time I see "oh, you can do this with Calibre" I'm brought once more to the "ugh, there's absolutely no way I can live with it trying to move/copy files on me". It *would* be nice, however, if there was a way to more easily search books, search *within* books, etc. I absolutely do NOT want a program copying books where I don't want them, trying to duplicate the library, etc. Is there any way to use the features of Calibre without having it move or copy ebooks for me? I have my own extensive directory structure (with thousands of ebooks and related files in them) that is quite idiosyncratic (fiction books by author, except for children's, which are buried in an entirely different area nonfiction by topic/subject, which is also quite idiosyncratic in how I have it organized). I'd given up on using Calibre for anything but conversions long ago, but I figured I might as well ask to see if this has even been considered in the intervening years: