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Old 04-30-2015, 11:38 AM   #702
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Originally Posted by TheTruthBetween View Post
A plugin to import from Google Docs would be awesome. I do a lot of writing with a friend and that's how we write together, and it would be awesome to be able to put the share link into Calibre and update it (thinking like how FanFicFare works).
Something that pulls a copy of one of Google Docs' 'Download as' formats into calibre should be possible, but would presumably require OAuth2 to authenticate to Google to get non-public documents.

Then there's the question of what you want from it once it's in calibre.

Using a randomly selected public document (the most recent I happened to look at), none of the 'Download as' formats convert cleanly to epub in calibre. But that may have to do with all the tables.

I think downloading 'updates' only would be some where between very difficult and impossible given that fact it's a full document that could be changed anywhere. So it would have to be a complete download every time.

You could get very nearly the same effect with 'Download as' and an auto-add directory in calibre.

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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Why not share the library via Dropbox? Not Google Drive, because unfortunately Google Drive will silently modify filenames with parentheses and break calibre.
I think you're thinking of files stored in Google Drive while the question seems to be about a document in Google Docs. And isn't using a cloud service to store your library still officially discouraged?
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