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Originally Posted by shentar
Symlinks are probably not a good idea for what I want to do. It might work if calibre were running on the same box as the files but the current plan is to have calibre on a small linux box and the files on a Synology NAS. Fortunately the Synology also runs linux and you can log onto it and use it as a limited function linux PC. This gives me the option to use hard links which are more or less indistinguishable at the linux app level from genuine files.
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I think you're confused about hard and sym/soft links. AFAIK hardlinks wont stretch across networks, they have to be on the same partition see
What is a hard link? -- by The Linux Information Project.
Which is why I referred to symlinks - which will stretch across file systems and partitions and networks.
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Originally Posted by shentar
The Evernote technique is an interesting idea, although I don't need it for this as all access will be from within the home. I don't use Evernote currently but several people have recommended it so I should probably revisit it.
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AFAIK there's no official Linux implementation of Evernote, but there are some unofficial ones - Everpad and Nevernote are two of which I'm aware.
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Originally Posted by shentar
Sigh. I could say "why didn't I think of that" but TBH it has never occurred to me that calibre supports drag'n'drop as an entry method.
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I should have remembered that too, but I don't do much bulk adding these days and with non-ebook files I'm usually adding to an existing book.
You could probably find a utility or a site that will transform XML into CSV suitable for use with the Import List PI - or you could have a look at the possibility of adding XML as as input source to the PI
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