[chaley]

Originally Posted by jjansen

Chaley, I know that you have heard this one many times before but I am putting my request in again for CC to work with a USB tethered connection. I am sitting in a hotel room right now and can't get the wireless or content server working. I was on an airplane coming here and wasn't allowed to turn wifi on. I run into these problems often when I am not at home. I have your excellent product on my ereaders, phones and tablets. It is actually a requirement when I am looking at new ereaders to make sure that CC will run on them. I would really, really appreciate a version that worked hardwired. Thanks for all your efforts.

I keep thinking about how to do some kind of wired connection, and keep hitting brick walls.

There are 5 ways I can think of to solve this problem with today's CC.

• Use a pocket wifi access point. These are marvelous little devices that create a local network so that devices can talk to each other. They do several other things as well, such as wifi sharing in hotels where you get one connection and sharing cable connections. I use an ASUS WL-330NUL, but there are many other devices that do similar things. I understand that this solution requires purchasing something, but for me it paid for itself the first time my wife and I had to pay for a wifi connection while traveling. We bought one and used this device to share it.
• Use CC Cloud's "library on device or SD card". This option works with only a cabled connection. The steps:
  1. On the machine (laptop) runnng calibre, create an empty calibre library.(Library / Switch/Create library / Create an empty library at new location). Be sure to check the Copy Structure checkbox. Call this the "Transfer library"
  2. Once the library is created, switch back to your main library.
  3. For each book you want to transfer to your device, select that book, right click, choose "Copy to library", and choose the new library. You can select more than one book before you do the copy.
  4. Close calibre. This is important, as you don't want calibre to detect your device in the next step.
  5. Plug in your device. It should appear in the file explorer or whatever your laptop uses.
  6. Copy the transfer library to the device using the file explorer.
  7. Unplug the device.
  8. In CC, choose Library on device or SD card as the cloud provider (Settings / Cloud Connection / Cloud provider).
  9. Start CC Cloud (Connect / Connect to cloud).
  10. Navigate to the library you copied. You should see a green check mark next to it.
  11. Add the books to CC.
  The second time you do this, instead of creating an empty transfer library you might want to delete all the books in the current transfer library to avoid confusion and extra copying. Same thing is true for the copy on the device; when you connect the device you might delete any existing copy of the transfer library before doing the copy.
• Related to the above: copy your library to an SD card and put that card in your device. Of course, this requires your device to support SD cards and that you currently aren't using the SD card slot.
• Again related to the above, do the same thing but put the transfer library in the cloud. This will work if your laptop and device both have access to the internet but don't have access to each other. The transfer library is very small so any free cloud plan should be enough.
• And of course, you could put your entire library in the cloud. This is the easiest solution to manage as long as you have enough space with some cloud provider and your devices have internet access.

I think I will make a FAQ out of the above.

EDIT: I added a FAQ answer I am in a hotel/airport/? and cannot connect CC to my computer by WiFi. How can I transfer books?