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Originally Posted by gwynevans
Just some scene-setting - the point of the Dropbox public folder is that it's contents are available to anyone with the right URL and the reports were about situations where the user's URLs had been shared & become generally known. The problem is that to use an OPDS feed, you need to access a server, which can be Calibre itself on your local network, but from elsewhere, an easy option is to use a Dropbox public folder containing the files that calibre2opds creates/copies, as long as you don't share your personal URL to your index.xml.
There are other options, but they're more techie... For instance, I have my firewall set to allow connections to a RasberryPi (a tiny low power computer) that's serving a copy of my Calibre db via a calibre-server process, so I can download books when I'm out away from home.
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I was following just fine until the highlighted bit - I have excellent superficial computer knowledge, but then...
Share my personal URL with who? Or is it where? And since I don't know what my index.xml is... Okay, maybe my superficial computer knowledge isn't all that excellent.
You see my problem??
I'm fine with how things are though, so I think I'm good. Sometimes my curiosity gets me in too deep... Sounds like, though, that since my Calibre library isn't in my public folder, I can safely do the OPDS catalog option in Marvin, adding .opds to the end of the link to my local Calibre folder. 1xx.xxx.x.xxx:8080/opds (Thanks to Faterson for that tip!) It's a nicer way to look for things when I'm home.
Thanks!