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ok perhaps I mis-spoke I know the files are right where I left them See my notice about taking up extra space.
yes I know the storage is Cheap I'm running a 1Tb RAID array as, is but it's Waste for waste sake, literal duplicate copies of books.
I thought the Calibre content server required the users to have calibre as well?
Asking a half dozen individuals to install software, they otherwise don't need, just to access my shared files seems... I'm not sure how to phrase it, rude maybe.
to put it another way, Assume your friends came over and wanted to borrow some music, and you forced them to install I tunes just to copy 2 or 3 MP3's off your computer (and please lets not get into a legal debate here, it's just the first example that came to mind) Do you think they would be happy/willing to do it?
Worldwalker, I too k the time yo read the post linked in your signature, and I agree with what you have to say, but there are exceptions to every rule. you suggest using Calibre to export books to lend to your friend,s which is great and fine & good, and I wholeheartedly agree with it, and it the way calibre handles book management in general.
But these books are often used as reference, you don't pull one out, and read it cover to cover, you grab one, look up some rule you forgot, some chart you needed to reference, and then put it back. for me, the guy running Calibre, with local access to the file,s this might be fine, but for the others in my gaming group, less so.
if it's not do-able, that's fine I'm not here to raise a stink and go "oh noes" or whatever
I was just hoping there was a way to get it to do what I wanted, if there isn't, there isn't I'll eat the extra 60 gig, but I figured I'd ask before I fragment the crap out of my drive :P
Believe me, 60 gig of books, not a huge amount of space, I just hate inefficiency of having duplicate files lying around
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