03-21-2012, 06:41 AM | #1 |
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Database viewer/copy
I am running Calibre to create a database of my ebooks. I can easily search and copy the books to my ereader.
I have other people in my house with ereaders and I want to give them access to this database as well. I did install calibre on their laptops and they can search and copy books to their ereaders. What I do not like is that the directory and database should have write access. And I do not want the others to modify my ebook database. Is there a way to configure Calibre as a viewer, that they can only search the database and copy the books to the ereaders ? |
03-21-2012, 07:48 AM | #2 |
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No. In addition, if multiple instances of calibre access the same db at the same time, very bad things can happen.
Why not have the other people use the content server? |
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03-21-2012, 07:03 PM | #3 |
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Not ideal, but you can use calibre's ability to manage multiple libraries to solve your problem. The assumption here is that ebooks are small in size (true) and disk space is cheap (was true, currently isn't true, will be true again).
From your "master" calibre library (the library you've already created):
Each library will have its own copy of books, and you'll have to manually copy any new or updated books from your master into the other libraries, but this will allow you to manage a "centralized" library while maintaining file permissions and not worrying about other users accessing the libraries at the same time (coordinate when you copy books vs. when they're using the libraries so that there's no overlap). As I said, it's not ideal and it "wastes" disk space, but it's probably the best option for your scenario until calibre gets true multi-user library access (IIRC there's a work item for that, but no target date besides "When it's ready"). |
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