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Originally Posted by rjalex
Also the "dropbox as data vault out of calibre's jurisdiction with a "clean" and "to fix" directories" is a clever idea. If I get your idea well the "to fix" data would be "added" to a non-dropbox local librabry adn when clean exported "to disk" where the disk is the "clean" book with the mobi, opf etc files ? The only part I am not quite understanding is then how to use cailbre to load the clean books on my kindle (very new user hence I might be unaware of Calibre being able to use two different libraries).
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Whether you have two local libraries or one is up to you and whether you want to mix the batch of books you are working on cleaning up currently with the books that you have cleaned so far. In terms of getting books onto your kindle it would be as per usual of doing send to device from your local library. You would likely not want any unclean books on there. So either you could use a tag or custom column when you add books from the "to fix" folder to your single local library which you remove as you clean them up. Or you could have two local libraries, one for your to fix books and one for your clean ones. It is trivial with calibre to switch libraries and to move books between them.
So the choice is up to you and each of you friends can make their own decision as the libraries are local and not shared. The important thing is just the save to disk back into the "clean" folder on dropbox so that your friends can add from that into their library for putting onto their devices and vice versa.
I wish I had like minded friends to do this myself, I spend all my time writing plugins etc nowadays so the cleanup of my own library progresses at a snails pace. Good luck and hope this clarifies things. I think it is less restricting and safer than using lockfiles, particularly if you friends are in the same timezone.