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Old 08-03-2013, 02:16 AM   #2
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The issue is that Calibre is not (yet anyway) multi-user. As a result two separate instances of Calibre accessing the same Calibre library simultaneously can lead to corruption.

Having said that, if you are very careful to make sure that you never have two instances of Calibre accessing the library at the same time a lot of users have reported success in storing their Calibre library in Dropbox.

Another possibility is to hold your calibre library on a USB drive, and use it in conjunction with Calibre Portable. That way you carry the library around and can run it on any Windows PC you have access to. This approach does not suffer from the risk of corruption as by its very nature you can only be running a single instance of Calibre against the library at a time.
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