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Originally Posted by Digital_Restrict
In the meantime I will try to push my newly annotated pdfs from the android devices manually as you have suggested.
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Hello again. I have done a little research and there might be an alternative. It seems that a pretty good system is employed by some people. See
https://reminiscenceofanebookreader....ns-wispersync/ and
http://thousandfold.net/cz/2012/02/2...ver-of-ebooks/
The solutions like those described in the above links propose to have a cloud folder connected to Calibre as a device. This folder is filled with an entire calibre library, a virtual library (VL) or books chosen using various methods. The Calibre content server is not used here, rather the cloud folder/"device-connected-to-calibre" is accessed directly from android devices or other computers, edits/annotations are made locally, and the changes propagate across devices, including to the calibre library on the main PC. They use Dropbox; I would prefer to use gDrive but I've seen here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=205581 that it's not possible.
My academic books and articles (the ones I would want to highlight/annotate/sync the most, and which tend to come in pdf format most of the time) are already organised with tags and VLs in Calibre. If I understand correctly, I could easily make a "cloud academic folder" in DB, connect to Calibre as a device, fill it with the contents of my Academic VLs and then just access/sync this folder cross-platform with dropbox apps (or even from a browser?)
I've seen some warnings about this system being unstable and unpredictable though, and that's precisely why I was trying to use CalibreCompanion to automatically sync my pdf work. They were mainly about conflicts between cloud syncing processes and calibre accessing its library at the same time. For instance:
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Originally Posted by Adoby
Make sure you have sync turned off before you start calibre, and while you use calibre, and sync completely before you start calibre on another computer.
Calibre is a single user program and is only intended to be used on a local filesystem that isn't shared. But it seems that some successfully use calibre along with Dropbox and some other cloud sharing software.
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This would be a problem since I'm just about to setup an always-on content server on a dedicated PC and moving my entire library there. I'm also not too sure if all changes would be seamlessly harmonized between my cloud folder and the originals still in my main (only) calibre library... One thing I know is that I would be very nervous if a cloud storage was the only repository of my precious academic pdfs... (hearbeat goes up a bit)
I'll have to resume my investigation of this fascinating topic later on, but I wanted to give you a small update before going, in case this thread picks up interest.
Cheers