How can I stop the Books App from making another copy of my audiobooks into its library?
After many years of using an old 2009 iMac, I recently moved to a newer model running Ventura. I have a bunch of audiobooks I purchased over the years which I had added to my old Mac in m4b format. I just imported all my audiobooks to Books and suddenly I lost 100GB of space in my disk. As it turns out, Books made a copy of every single file into its own library. These are the exact same files! No changes made, just copied them instead of using the original location for the same file.
How can I stop this behaviour? In Music App there is a setting to stop Music copying songs to Music library. I do not see this option in Books.
Anybody has a trick? I am running out of space on my 1TB disk because MAC OS wants to have two copies of every file :-(.
iMac Pro, macOS 13.4