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Originally Posted by haertig
I am wondering a bit why you'd be asked to put up Calibre in a public library. Will this be used to distribute only non-DRM'ed and freely available books? Because with Calibre, either the main interface or the Content Server interface, you can download books. If the library patron has access to a USB port on the library computer, they can stick their personal thumbdrive in there and download the books from Calibre and permanently walk off with them, never to have to return them. That's not what you typically expect in a library setting, but maybe that's what you're after in this case.
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You are right, the plan is to make out-of-copyright French literature books, mostly from XIXth and early XXth century think Balzac, Zola, Stendhal, Voltaire, Racine, Corneille etc) available to students who would be very welcome to copy and take away whatever they wanted.
Rather than setting up a central server, I am thinking of having a copy of the whole library directory hidden in /root/ and have a cron job rsync it every five or ten minutes to /home/guest/