[edella]

I use calibre as my usual 'library for ebooks and am very happy with this system. But I also want to store books, in this case all books belonging to a particular author, on individual CDs.

I originally asked elsewhere if I could just load a copy of calibre, plus books all suitably formatted and prettyfied, on a CD, which could be run when and where wanted. A kind soul said that they thought that there actually was a 'mobile calibre' for a flash stick (which might work with a CD?). I'd love more info.

I wouldn't need a full calibre with all bells and whistles, just a kind of 'pocket calibre' -- a framework to hold ebooks, convert them if necessary to other formats and download to a device or monitor screen.

Perhaps not even that much, almost using calibre as a fancy file folder, with book covers, annotations, extra word documents relating to the ebooks on the CD, a really neat and attractive way of collating (and searching) all sorts of word and picture 'stuff' relating to an author or specific subject.

But easily stored as a physical object, and separate from any eDevices... You would still need a computer to run such a CD, but it doesn't need to be your own -- seems a useful way of using files and docs for special projects or study -- foolish to most I guess, but extremely attractive for my purposes!

regards from edella, slowly diminishing some of her paper books (about 4000 but dropping rapidly) and accommodation needs for retirement purposes!