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Well the last couple of Posts are re-assuring, because I installed Calibre a couple of months ago, and automatically put the library onto a QNap mirrored NAS Drive (all data goes onto NAS for security, backup and sharing), I've not used it much but it seems good, Yesterday my daughter needed a book for school work so I downloaded a copy, I had to do a calibre update as well so did little more. I pointed my Daughter to Kovids tutorial to watch with the intention this morning of loading Calibre (or hopefully perhaps a client version) onto her PC So she could add books, help maintain the Library and take stuff out to read on her Tablet or Phone
I was amazed therefore to find that this is seemingly not possible.., why?, I manage to keep a Video Library on the NAS & share it using Media Bowser, a music library (used to be Squeezeserver but recently abandoned that, now just a files and folder structure that works with all the Media Players I have tried), Documents, accessed variously by MS Office and Libre Office, surely a BOOKS LIBRARY is by definition a shared resource!

I would like to be able to have one data source that I can access and manipulate from networked devices, and load copies on and off those devices to read, I don't need an internet content server as my remote systems simply VPN in and can access the network effectively from the "Lan".

Is this what is being developed ? I would be pleased to help in any way but not being a coder do not have much of the skills you might need, do you have any likely time scale?