# Book Links **URL:** \ **Category:** Book Collector\ **Created:** [July 15, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029 "2025-07-15T20:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/kenhunter/32/956_2.png) [@KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/u/KenHunter)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/1 "2025-07-15T20:30:05Z")
I understand that switching to web will break all my links to my ebooks. I don’t use the links to access the books so that is not a problem but I would like to retain the path information in a text field so I can know where the books are on my computer. Is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/clz_aj/32/9_2.png) [@CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/u/CLZ_AJ)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2025, 7:09am UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/2 "2025-07-18T07:09:27Z")
File links is not something you can transfer to another field - so your only way would be to copy the path, and put it in notes, manually, one by one - which I assume will be way too much work. I’m sorry to say I can’t really think of a workaround here to do it automatically. ---
**Author:** ![KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/kenhunter/32/956_2.png) [@KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/u/KenHunter)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/3 "2025-07-29T21:55:23Z")
Correct, with over 1100 books I don’t see that as a solution. What I’m really after is a way select the folder I have already added to my collection and have it add just the books not in my collection without having it ask me. ---
**Author:** ![CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/clz_aj/32/9_2.png) [@CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/u/CLZ_AJ)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/4 "2025-07-30T13:56:35Z")
> [@KenHunter](#): > > What I’m really after is a way select the folder I have already added to my collection and have it add just the books not in my collection without having it ask me. Via menu Edit \> Add Book Files and scanning your harddrive for book files you can check this box: “Hide linked files” ![image](https://club-cdn.clz.com/original/3X/c/5/c536eeb6384c52b87190048fc9c4405cd8384180.png) This will hide all ebook files it finds that are already in a path for your books. ---
**Author:** ![KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/kenhunter/32/956_2.png) [@KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/u/KenHunter)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/5 "2025-08-31T07:01:52Z")
I had tried that, apparently a number of my file links were corrupt (maybe too long). I blew everything away (separate collection for ebooks only) and linked to a drive letter for location now work great. I assume this will work in Web also. ---
**Author:** ![CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/clz_aj/32/9_2.png) [@CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/u/CLZ_AJ)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/6 "2025-08-31T09:36:32Z")
I think we already kinda discussed this, but : - File links **do not** sync with CLZ Web - Notes and Weblinks **do sync** with CLZ Web ---
**Author:** ![KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/kenhunter/32/956_2.png) [@KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/u/KenHunter)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 9:20pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/7 "2025-09-01T21:20:38Z")
Soryy, I do understand that links don’t work in web. I was referring to the Add Files option in Collector and if it was in web and how does the Hide File Links work in web to remove duplicates? ---
**Author:** ![CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/clz_aj/32/9_2.png) [@CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/u/CLZ_AJ)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/8 "2025-09-02T09:18:08Z")
There is no “add files” in Web. Therefor, there is no “Hide Linked Files” in Web either. Web does not do File Links at all. Web only does links to internet pages. Does that answer the question? ---
**Author:** ![KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/kenhunter/32/956_2.png) [@KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/u/KenHunter)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/9 "2025-09-02T19:53:32Z")
Yes and No, so how do you add ebooks in web? ---
**Author:** ![CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/clz_aj/32/9_2.png) [@CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/u/CLZ_AJ)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 7:32am UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/10 "2025-09-03T07:32:36Z")
You can not add files to CLZ Books Web, so you can’t add eBooks to CLZ Books Web. You can only add “website links” to CLZ Books Web. So if you would for instance have the eBook on dropbox or Google Drive, you could make it create a weblink, and then manually add it to the book. One by one. There is no file scanning on CLZ Books Web at all, and no linking to local eBook files on your harddrive. ---
**Author:** ![KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/kenhunter/32/956_2.png) [@KenHunter](https://club.clz.com/u/KenHunter)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/11 "2025-09-05T22:23:08Z")
As I stated in my original post I don’t need the ability to link to the file but it would be nice to be able to scan a directory to add them in Web. Only other way to add would be by Author/ Title and as I mentioned in another post it would be a lot easier if I could limit to Format Ebook. ---
**Author:** ![CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/user_avatar/club.clz.com/clz_aj/32/9_2.png) [@CLZ\_AJ](https://club.clz.com/u/CLZ_AJ)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://club.clz.com/t/book-links/13029/12 "2025-09-08T10:05:54Z")
As I mentioned: it is not possible for a web-app, a website, to scan your hard drive for files. That would be a major security problem - and I don’t even think Chrome/Firefox etc would ever allow a website to scan your harddrive for files to be honest! So: no it is not possible.