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Originally Posted by MyNameIsMrBurns
I see, so how does that metadata update work in practice? You copy the book to your personal Calibre library, add its description, tags, cover art, etc etc, and then upload it and its .opf file together, and it all updates neatly? I was wondering about that part.
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I think you are posting this question at me.
My entire library is in a dropbox folder. I update the library on the copy on my home machine, adding books, changing metadata, what have you. The changes to the library are copied to my server by dropbox, where they are 'served' by the content server there. The only thing I do that is special on my server is to copy the db file to /tmp and have calibre open that in order to avoid conflicts. I use monit to restart the content server whenever the timestamp on metadata.db in the library changes.
I do not attempt to upload manually the changes. I see that as a recipe for disaster. There are changes one can make to a library that result in non-obvious folder hierarchy changes, and I have no desire to attempt to track these manually. Dropbox and other folder sync programs do this task quite well.