[anleva]

I'm looking for help with using Calibre for a specific application. Not sure of the best way to do this.

Here is what I would like to do. I have 3 computers, home, work and home server. I have Dropbox on all 3 computers and have installed Calibre Portable in my Dropbox folder so that Calibre Portable and my Library and Settings are available anywhere. However it is not quite working the way I had hoped.

I use Calibre for books but also have subscribed to multiple daily news feeds/magazines. I have one computer that is always on, my home server. So my thought was to leave Calibre Portable running on that computer so it will download daily feeds.

My hope was then to be able to either start up Calibre Portable on my work or home laptop depending on my location, connect my Nook and synch the latest magazines and books. At times I could even add books via Calibre Portable and Dropbox on any of the three computers and everything could be in synch. But I am seeing that leaving Calibre Portable running on my home server and opening it on one of my other computers ends up causing some database conflicts. So it doesn't appear to be a workable solution.

Is there a way to do this using Calibre Portable and Dropbox as described above? Or is there another method that would work better.

Thanks