To the OP --- tread carefully.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
However what you "could" do is just treat dropbox as an add source/save to disk target. So you save to disk out of Calibre onto the DropBox location (making sure you save the opf/jpg). Then others can use Add from Folder, with automerge turned on. So that way you will pickup any metadata changes/new covers/versions etc others put in.
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Then the workflow becomes someone picks a folder of books from the "unprocessed" area and removes it from there to their local disk (so others dont try to clean them at the same time). Then import from that folder to Calibre, clean them up and then save to disk back into the "clean" folder in Dropbox for others to import, either just that author if you are communicating with each other or the whole clean folder if you use the automerge approach.
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The dropbox is a local folder and each of the three machines. they can each be working on the library at the same time. Even if they were working on different books when each of their metadata.db files tries to update the main cloud (and in turn each of their local machines) it is very probable that they will experience blocked files.
Using dropbox in this manner is only a viable option if they work out some sort of time schedule. If they ever update close to the same time they will be frustrated with missing books that get locked as conflicted copies on their local machines.