[haertig]

Is it possible to grant read-only remote access to my Calibre library to a full Calibre installation running on a remote client machine?

e.g., The remote client runs a full version of Calibre, and they can select a library to connect to via a network path? Then everything operates on the client end just as if the library was local.

e.g., The client is configured to connect to:

calibre://www.my-domain.com:my-port/path-to-library

e.g. On my Calibre installation (acting as a server) I specify if this remote access will be read-only or read-write, I specify it authentication is required, etc. I really don't care about read-write, I would only use read-only. So a lot of the buttons on the client Calibre might be non-functional, and preferably grayed-out when connected to a remote library.

I have read that Calibre is not network-mount friendly (why?), otherwise you could do all this outside of Calibre itself. Which would actually be preferable IMHO.