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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Why not put the books in OneDrive? And install Calibre on your tablet. You must have the calibre main libary file offline (naturally), but can then simply tell OneDrive which files you want online and which you want offline (offline when you want to read it and back online when you're done).
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Thanks Sweetpea! That's a pretty good idea for mirroring and yet minimizing space. The big hurdle with the "mirror Calibre library to tablet" ideas seems to be using Calibre itself on the tablet.
I quickly remembered/rediscovered that SyncToy won't copy locked files (which my metatdata.db is due to running Calibre server) so I ended up with FreeFileSync (installed the "portable" version in a VM and copied the binaries to avoid adware/spyware nonsense) and I seem to be able to mirror my Calibre library to the uSDXC card on the tablet. (I only have ~5.5GB of books at this time.) So I'm not sure I personally have need to worry aboust space and hassle with figuring which books are offline-accessible with 64GB uSDXC cards at $25.
I ran out of time before really playing with Calibre, but it does seem like I could get it to sort by series, and maybe bump font sizes etc up enough to get where I wanted.
In reflection though I suspect I really want more than I originally said
I've grown somewhat used to the hierarchical or tree view of books... While NookLibrary certainly was flat, I've gotten used to seeing only the current series. I could certainly *filter* with Calibre but I don't know of a true "tree" view?
Probably I just need to fiddle with this some more so I'll take all suggestions!
Thanks again,
Richard