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Old 04-30-2015, 05:26 AM   #1
GERGE
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Istanbul
Device: Kobo Libra
How do you keep and use your library?

For most of us, our ebook library is among our most valuable digital data. Mine isn't as big as what many have here but I still have bought books on a weekly basis for the last 6 years or so.

So, how do you protect your data and access to it?

I don't believe keeping your books on the service you bought them is a sane default, everyone here should remember what happened with B&N. I had ninety-something books from them, but fortunately I had backed them all up while making the switch to Kobo.

For me, to start my process I organize all my books with Calibre and my Calibre Library lives under my OneDrive folder. After that, I keep my Calibre library backed up with Calibre Companion on my Android phone. I also sync the library to my personal VPS with Syncthing.

To access it; at most basic level, an usb cable, Kobo and Calibre. I also use Marvin with an opds server on my VPS (with COPS) and Aldiko with my phone. When I am away from home, I usually connect to my phone's hotspot with Kobo and download from COPS.

For better redundancy and reading on my Macbook, I upload all my books to Google Play Books, and read online from there with my laptop.

At total, my library lives in 4 different places (As far as I know, you can't download your uploads from Google Play Books). In those six years I have been buying ebooks, I have only lost one: Vellum from Hal Duncan.

PS. I don't trust hard copies so I don't bother creating copies on optical data or external HDDs. The important thing is being able to access the library when the main one fails. It is extremely unlikely that laptop SSD, phone microsd, VPS with its weekly backups and OneDrive would fail at the same time with out possibility of recovery.

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