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Originally Posted by bosun120
Anyways, I was wondering if/when Calibre was going to appear on the PortableApps listing: http://portableapps.com/apps As I understand it all the functionality is there right? |
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If someone wants to step up and create/maintain a version for Portableapps.com Kovid has no objections.
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There's already one being
actively maintained by prapper but it's still a dev test:
http://portableapps.com/node/20518
Alas, given there's a Calibre update every week, I'm not sure if a final version will ever see the light of day.
Latest version can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/prap...online.paf.exe
This is an online installer so if you want to update, just run the app again and it will download the latest version from calibre's website (specifically from
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/portable)
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
Since there is a calibre portable version for download from the calibre site I think there is no longer a need for a portableapps.com version. |
On this point, I disagree. I've found the PortableApps version to work better than the official download. The former has better support for multiple libraries.
With the "official" version, the library must always be in the "Calibre Library" folder and it will re-spawn if you even change the library name. If you use more than one library, then the official portable app will use absolute links for the additional libraries. It also doesn't remember the last library used. It will always use the library in the "Calibre Library" folder.
Say you have the official portable app, install it in a flash drive and create multiple libraries. On computer A, the flash drive is assigned F:, on computer B, G: and computer C, H:, you would have to locate the additional libraries each time you use the flash drive on different computers.