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Old 08-20-2017, 09:28 AM   #7
Gnomeore
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Hide Private Calibre Library from Public

Thankful for the reply Kovid. However it does not completely solve my problem.

I run two libraries within Calibre; one private, the other public. It would be very good to only display the public library in the Content Server.

My private library has ebooks that I have purchased. With the public library I host computer tutorials for a not-for-profit organisation via our Wi-Fi network. I know from the previous post that I can use passwords to restrict access to both but it would be much better if the private one was not listed via the Content Server (it does not look good for me to have my private library listed even though they cannot access it.

I tried to run two copies on Calibre to get around this problem however it seems that I can only run one at a time on my Mac. The only other solution with version 3.x is to run it on two seperate Mac computers.

It may not be possible with the current version to have private libraries but it would be good if it could be considered in a future addition. So it looks like I will have to go back to version 2.x for the time being.

Another problem is that the name of our not-for-profit organisation has a hyphen (-) in it and all of our online services use this as part of our user-name. Version 3 of Calibre no longer seems to support a hyphen in the user-name so I would have to either change this for all our services or just go to using version 2.x. I am sure that there was a reason to make this change in terms of some compatibility problem but it would be good if there was a setting to allow this. There may be one but I could not see it.

If any one has found a way around these problems I would be very grateful.

Calibre is still my number one choice and I am happy to support it. I am actually running a Calibre training sessions for our members next weekend at our members' request.
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