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BetterRed · 08-21-2016, 12:06 AM

theducks, on shirt pocket drives.

@David - theducks post reminded of something

I know of a calibre user who has zillions of fan fiction stories and a boatload of custom columns who keeps a 'backup' copy of their calibre library on a portable drive. When they travel they attach the portable drive to their Samsung Tab, and then they access the library via CC's Cloud feature.
As I understand it, CC's Cloud interface uses the calibre library/database directly, its read only of course.

And this maybe the clincher for you, I'm fairly certain they maintain the backup copy with FFS over USB cable!

You may need this plugin ==>> Save Composite Custom Columns
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I use Chrome for calibre-server because it's not Firefox, which is also my main browser, I'm thinking of switching to Edge or firewalled Midori for calibre-server access.
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I've never needed (or even wanted) a single top level list. I create CSV's via the Catalogue feature, or via the calibredb --list command. If I selected just common columns I guess I could concatenate the output of multiple calibredb commands into a single file.

I use nirsoft's CSVFileView to view the CSV files (IMO spreadsheets are overkill), it has an export to HTML feature which is useful for sharing with others.
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When I travelled a lot I preferred shirt pocket drives to thumb drives, they were bigger capacity wise and for me at least less easily lost. As a consequence of always losing them I tend to buy cheap thumb drives which fade like newsprint left in the sun

I have a few 20+ year old SCSI drives that are still readable.
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There's a search tool called Recoll that runs on Windows and Linux, and there's a Recoll plugin for calibre - not sure what its status is, a peek suggests 'uncertain'. I think Docfetcher also runs on Linux and Windows.

For some document types (but not ebook formats - except PDF) X1 shows results with search terms highlighted, which is the main reason I have it. I keep a searchable copy of everything, most of my 'books' originate as PDF, DOC(X), or ODT documents, but if I 'only' have something else (ePUB or Mobi etc) I convert to TXT or DOCX. Maybe one day someone will write an IFilter for ePUB at least.

BR

08-21-2016, 12:06 AM	#10
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,773 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	theducks, on shirt pocket drives. @David - theducks post reminded of something I know of a calibre user who has zillions of fan fiction stories and a boatload of custom columns who keeps a 'backup' copy of their calibre library on a portable drive. When they travel they attach the portable drive to their Samsung Tab, and then they access the library via CC's Cloud feature. As I understand it, CC's Cloud interface uses the calibre library/database directly, its read only of course. And this maybe the clincher for you, I'm fairly certain they maintain the backup copy with FFS over USB cable! You may need this plugin ==>> Save Composite Custom Columns ------------------------ I use Chrome for calibre-server because it's not Firefox, which is also my main browser, I'm thinking of switching to Edge or firewalled Midori for calibre-server access. ------------------------ I've never needed (or even wanted) a single top level list. I create CSV's via the Catalogue feature, or via the calibredb --list command. If I selected just common columns I guess I could concatenate the output of multiple calibredb commands into a single file. I use nirsoft's CSVFileView to view the CSV files (IMO spreadsheets are overkill), it has an export to HTML feature which is useful for sharing with others. ------------------------ When I travelled a lot I preferred shirt pocket drives to thumb drives, they were bigger capacity wise and for me at least less easily lost. As a consequence of always losing them I tend to buy cheap thumb drives which fade like newsprint left in the sun I have a few 20+ year old SCSI drives that are still readable. ------------------------ There's a search tool called Recoll that runs on Windows and Linux, and there's a Recoll plugin for calibre - not sure what its status is, a peek suggests 'uncertain'. I think Docfetcher also runs on Linux and Windows. For some document types (but not ebook formats - except PDF) X1 shows results with search terms highlighted, which is the main reason I have it. I keep a searchable copy of everything, most of my 'books' originate as PDF, DOC(X), or ODT documents, but if I 'only' have something else (ePUB or Mobi etc) I convert to TXT or DOCX. Maybe one day someone will write an IFilter for ePUB at least. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 08-21-2016 at 12:49 AM.