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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
I keep my Calibre library in dropbox, but I also have my entire library on my Nexus 7 as well - why not do both if you have room? Any metadata I update in Calibre automatically gets updated on my tablet when I connect wirelessly so it's always in sync and I can also update my read column from Calibre Companion. If I am using my phone away from home I can download a book to it using the content server thru Calibre Companion . I guess I can't see what Calibre Cloud does that Calibre Companion doesn't except I Calibre's content server.
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I'm confused as to how you get to calibre's content server when you are away from home, how does your phone see your local home network when you are outside of that network? Do you have a VPN? Is there some other feature of calibre that I'm missing? Please do enlighten me! I'd love it if this feature exists and I'm just not seeing it!
I do not have a VPN at this time so I keep my calibre library in dropbox, and Calibre Cloud Pro connects to my dropbox and loads in my calbre library so I can browse and search it. It has some glitches in the way series data is displayed, but otherwise is a pretty elegant solution. Sadly for me the series data is important to me, so it really mars the experience for me.
I >could< keep all my files on my nexus 7, but I see no reason to have 4 gigs of space used up when I can just pop into an app and grab just the books I want to read. I don't use the "read" column in calibre or ... anywhere. But the main reasons to use a cloud connect is because I read my books on 3 different devices depending on the situation. I read on my phone in an absolute reading emergency in the unlikely event I did not bring my kindle or my nexus, mostly I just carry my nexus and use it to read when I am out, but I ultimately prefer the reading experience and battery life on the Kindle. With my library on dropbox I can access said library through calibre2opds on the kindle (not perfect but it works), and with Calibre Cloud Pro on either my phone or nexus, so if I have run out of books to read on the device, and I'm not at home (and this does happen to me, because I read a lot, and I read fast) I can access my full library no matter where I am or what I'm reading on.
I mean I could go into much further detail on why, when and where I prefer to use each of the devices, but in the end all that matters is that I DO use all three and I like that if I have my book in the amazon cloud I can just sync reading progress between all three of them. It's the ONLY thing keeping me on a Kindle right now. If there was a Google Play Books eReader or a Moon+ eReader that did not suck I'd jump on it. (There is a thing called Onyx Boox Lynx or somesuch, but it's really an eInk "tablet" and all the reports I've read indicate it is not really ready yet)
Right now I much prefer Calibre Companion as a way to access my library when I'm at home, but when it comes right down to it I mostly need to access my library when I'm not at home, so the addition of a Content Server accessed through the cloud, for ME, would be the absolute coolest addition that could be made.