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Originally Posted by theducks
I am confused as to why you want to replicate your (central) library on each local machine? Sort of defeats the purpose of a central server  .
Calibre is a hybrid of a DB and a file system. IIRC that was done that way for performance reasons.
The DB application places and keeps track of the file(s) associated with the metadata record. Currently, this is a User application and there is nothing to ensure that only one user affects the file system portion.
ex. User 2 changes the author name spelling just as User 1 is adding a new title file to that author  |
I don't want to replicate the whole database (or I would not have a central server) - I just want to be able to import books in directly by highlighting them and click import. The itunes home sharing model - or like i said in my other reply the way Stanza does it. This is the whole reason Calibre has the server function built in. I would just like it to finish the other half and act as a client also.
The MySQL suggestions through the threads that people are wanting isn't a completely bad idea - but it would take much work to port it properly to MySQL than it would be program an ODS client (ok to be fair that's a guess).