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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Exaggerate much? 3-5 my ever loving ass. If you want to spread FUD, at least have the grace to not do it here.
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Hang on, I'm not trying to spread anything. I can easily see 3 copies, someone else posted about 4 copies and I though of one situation with 5 copies. So no, not exaggerating much. Touchy are you? Don't alienate a supporter who is just trying to figure out how best to use your software to meet his needs.
In my case, one copy in Calibre's library, one copy in my own section for me to work with since Calibre doesn't want us messing with it's copy, one copy in iTunes to sync since we sync from Calibre and not our copies and a back up on another drive on the system. I saw someone else counting the copy on the device so that could be 5 but I do think we should stick with copies on the actual system itself so 3-4.
Personally, I really like Calibre and think you have done a great job and am not trying to knock you and your work. I just though the OS/sector example wasn't a good one really.
I do have to carefully consider how I plan to move forward with these changes. Since I have several people in the house all using it for each of their readers, I though a networked database would be nice. Keep the library on a server and everyone could pull the books that they wanted on their devices over to their systems. (Do this now as all the ebooks are on one system and everyone runs their own Calibre locally.)
Problem I am seeing is that nobody wants to have everybody else's books messing up their clean libraries. It is the same with all our music. At the moment we are all holding on 0.8.6 and not upgrading while I figure out what is going to work best for us. Change how we manage our libraries, switch to just use iTunes or the Sony app to manage libraries now or just continue with 0.8.6 and never upgrade. Not sure what we'll do yet.
One question, the "faqs" list this as a change to support an "option" of a networked database in the future. What happens if we don't select that option and everything is local? Could things still be worked out to support using the local files in that case?
Also, on a side note, if we follow the instructions to "remove from device" after loading the book onto our iDevice, to save the extra space, won't that then delete it from the iDevice the next time we sync as it will no longer be in the iTunes library?
Again, you have written a nice piece of software. You have decided to take it in a new direction which is fine. Just have to figure out which direction is best for our particular cases.