[tanteoma]

I have one main computer sitting in my study that's on 24x7 and many laptops scattered around the house on the same wifi network. There are 30000ish books on the main computer, I would like to read a tiny fraction of them on the laptops without having to taking up too much of their puny little computing power and without losing my way in a giant database. So the calibre on the laptops usually only holds 20-30 books I'm interested in reading. Plus, I just recently discovered the little beauty, calibre's own ebook viewer, and started to really like reading on it after tweaking the stylesheet a bit.

In order to get books from the main computer when I'm working on laptops, I either visit the calibre content server via a browser on the laptop or I remote control the main computer and use the "save to disk" function from there.

But I'm wondering, question 1, is there a way to do it from inside Calibre? Like with Stanza? That way, I don't need to re-import books into the Calibre on my laptops.

Question 2, is there a way to synchronize the bookmarks or where I am in a book so I can move from laptop to laptop while reading the same book?

Both are long shots, I know. I'm pretty happy with the calibre functions I discovered already and it's not really any hardship to re-import a few books or to remember the page/percentage number.