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Frank Lowney · 01-14-2011, 05:46 PM

I wanted to suggest an expanded feature regarding the OPDS service. At my university, it is very difficult to get the IT landlords to allow one to put up even a simple web server. Faculty who would otherwise use calibre's excellent server for themselves and their students simply cannot. There is a DropBox option but it is a klugy solution IMO. Most faculty are unable to do this on their own. However, if calibre were to have an option to write an OPDS catalog to their DropBox, that would solve the problem. Would that be very hard and time consuming to do? Are there any Calibre developers interested in this as a Plug-in perhaps?

01-14-2011, 05:46 PM	#1
Frank Lowney frank.lowney Posts: 13 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPad	Wanted: Plug-in to do ODPS via DropBox I wanted to suggest an expanded feature regarding the OPDS service. At my university, it is very difficult to get the IT landlords to allow one to put up even a simple web server. Faculty who would otherwise use calibre's excellent server for themselves and their students simply cannot. There is a DropBox option but it is a klugy solution IMO. Most faculty are unable to do this on their own. However, if calibre were to have an option to write an OPDS catalog to their DropBox, that would solve the problem. Would that be very hard and time consuming to do? Are there any Calibre developers interested in this as a Plug-in perhaps?