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Originally Posted by chaley
CC + Wireless Connection can support massive libraries. There is at least one user with a CC library larger than 40,000 books, and many people have libraries in CC larger than 10,000 books. A 200-book library is minuscule. NB: with a large library you should take a look at our FAQ [Android] I have added a lot of books and now adding books takes forever. What do I do?. The suggestions in that FAQ are especially relevant to CC libraries on SD cards.
Assuming that for some reason the wireless device isn't for you, another possibility is the CC Cloud Local Library connection. You put a full copy of your calibre library onto an SD Card, perhaps using a card reader, then use CC to browse that library to get books you want to read. Our FAQ [Android] I have a copy of a calibre library on an SD card. Can CC use it? might help.
CC does not support upwards-synchronization of books; auto-uploading of changed books to calibre. It does support downward sync; auto-downloading changed books from calibre via the wireless connection.
As for the question about Dropbox speed, I suggest that you try it. Performance strongly depends on your network speed, so no one can tell you in advance what yours will be.
As for the rest, I leave it to others. I am not going to spend much time working out ways for you to avoid using my product. |
Thank you so much for the extensive reply. Just pointing to the most appropriate faqs means a lot, I had time to read quite all the basics but didn't do all my homework about the first you mentioned. I discovered the cloud option trick for the external SD card just today, wandering back among faqs. I think I'd just try to set up a new session of downloads of the entire library caring especially about the hierarchy coherence and the option to overwrite old books, I can leave the pc solely working on that, with clean bandwidth, for many (12-14) hours; is it possible to estimate a raw time needed to better organize this job? You say I don't have to concerne about CC being capable of handling correctly a huge library and I totally trust your effort in giving such a great software - I bought it since I first used that, just for how precious the initiative seemed to me for Calibre users. I'm bringing back some good news I hope! Alternatively I'd just stuck with downloading by CC wireless few hundreds of books which I plan to be interested in reading soon.
