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Originally Posted by Faterson
If you read some of my earlier posts in this mega-thread, you know I consider the desire to "integrate Calibre with Marvin" to be old-fashioned and inefficient. 
Why? Because it's so much easier just to instruct cloud software like Dropbox or SugarSync or Box.net, to mirror your entire Calibre "Books" folder online -- so that you always have access to any of your Calibre books on any of your traditional computers or handheld devices. There is no need to set up any direct connection between Calibre and Marvin any longer! And no need to be running your iPad and a different computer (with Calibre) at the same time. The other computer can be switched off, but you still have access to all of your Calibre books -- isn't that cool?  |
I know this has been discussed before Alex,but I have to disagree on this, for many reasons.
1.- Dropbox (and their ilk) have a substantial cost if you, like me exceed the measly 5GB they provide for free.
2.- Dropbox (and their ilk) have now taken to summarily delete people's accounts without recourse if they receive any complaints of books being served there. I don't want to discuss right/wrong on those actions, it just is.
3.- if you (like me) have more that 1000 books, the aforementioned API limits makes Marvin's DB browser useless. Now you have to use other apps to access you books and have Marvin handle them, an extra step at best, clunky at worst.
4.- Using Dropbox (and their ilk) does not allow you to obtain the rich metadata and excellent organization and browsing options available with Calibre.
So, in my case anyway, since my collection is some 9GB and I don't want to spend $100 or so per year for the extra storage, Dropbox ( and their ilk) are useless to me.
Instead I spent $36 for a yearly hosting plan and back up my collection there, as well as to a Flash drive.
So you see, it's not "old fashioned", just practical, to run your own calibre server if you can.
Some man's crap is another man's gold.
Cheers
Art