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Originally Posted by binarygoddess
I believe I saw mentioned you were considering cloud connect? Please please please PLEASE do add this! I keep my library on dropbox, and...
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I like to keep my books locally, so this is not something I would want, but I was thinking about this a bit and I think I might have come up with a way to do this that is much less development work then a full-on content server.
So, the really simple way to do this would be to just allow the user to select a dropbox folder as the default folder. Then work normally, except that instead of saving the books to a local directory, as you copy them from the computer, save them to dropbox. Then, when the person wants to do something with them, just copy them from dropbox to a local directory and proceed normally.
If you want to get more complicated, You can detect if the selected directory in dropbox is a Calibre folder and then skip the "copy file to dropbox" part. It will make things a little more complicated, because when you later copy them to open them locally, you will have to traverse the author/title directory structure on dropbox, but it is much friendly way to go for people who already have their library in dropbox.
You will have to have some sort of policy about how long to keep books locally, but the nice thing about this idea is that all of the parts of the program that don't deal with the actual book files will not need to change at all.
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Originally Posted by binarygoddess
A couple things CCpro does right is that it allows you to click-upload books to google play when they are epubs,
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Calibre Companion does this as well. Its on the menu when you are at book details.