[MildBill]

Even before Kovid created the portable version he has now, Calibre has been portable using the batch file that was included by Kovid and the team. This is indeed what I based my portable apps version on before I was rather rudely told to quit.

The biggest issue I had was how to get the batch file into the portable apps menu, and that is why I created my version in the first place. Aside from that, all you really need to do is edit that batch file to change the library location, locations of other data, and whether or not the library is static. Indeed, once I had things set up with Kovid's batch file for portablization, the only reason for creating a PortableApps setup was, as I said, to get both Calibre and it's E-Book Reader properly listed on the PA menu.

As for updates, I am still using the version I created for PortableApps, but I update it simply by copying the latest and greatest from Kovid onto the file structure I set up on my flash drive, this works perfectly to update the executables and does not break the PortableApps setup for it, since all of that exists in separate directories. It even updates the plugins installed, assuming they are the same for both installations.

MildBill