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Old 08-07-2014, 07:47 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by MsBarrows View Post
The setting up the content server I can do no problem, it's the "go to the IP address specified" part that I haven't any idea how to accomplish. First Android device I've ever possessed, so it's still at the "How does it work? BLOOD MAGIC!!!" stage of being a mysterious black box that sometimes does things when I poke it just right.

But the google drive workaround should give me at least minimal functionality for now in terms of being able to read books off of it.
IP addresses are like website names, but with numbers. For websites, there are special servers which tell the world what names go to which numbers, but for stuff you run on your own computer, setting a name requires manual work, which goes directly into the dangerously technical.

Just input the first number (four numbers separated by dots, that is the IP address), followed by a ":", followed by the "port number", which is the 4-digit number afterward.
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