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Originally Posted by Starson17
Can you directly access the dropbox copy on the web with a browser or opds-capable device (or do you need to echo it back to a local machine via dropbox?)
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You can access the copies on dropbox with a browser, but it is painful. They supply you with a file explorer interface, not an html/browser interface. You also need to have the dropbox account credentials.
For those of you who are somewhat technical, I think the easiest way to get something like this working is to pick up a cheap VPS or virtual host somewhere, stick dropbox on it, and have it replicate the calibre2opds-created library into the machine's webspace. All done.
It does cost something (as low as $90/year, but probably more like $150), but for that you get good network pipes (not a home ADSL), professional management of hardware, RAID disks, better security (your home net isn't open), and other functionality such as personal mail domains.
Note that in my VPS scenario, dropbox is acting only as a transfer agent. There are other ways to do that (such as rsync), thereby avoiding the size limitations.