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mikew · 02-23-2009, 08:12 PM

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone else has had the idea/need for a remote library. I have several pc's/laptops/servers in the house, and I never really know where I'll be sitting down when I decide to add some more content to my prs-505. I was thinking that if one copy of Calibre could connect to the content server of another one and download the metadata.db, it would know all the books available and list them as though they are in the local library. The only thing left to do after that is to allow (authenticated by login or certificates?) other "trusted" copies of Calibre to http POST a box either with or without the indexing information and let the master server add it to the database.

I originally though of using something like DropBox to do this, but already some of the larger stuff I have that I need only rarely on my reader have exceeded the 2GB limit you get for free.

Does this make sense to anyone else? Would anyone else find this useful?

02-23-2009, 08:12 PM	#1
mikew Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: prs-505	[Old Thread] Remote library support (not content server) Hi all, I was wondering if anyone else has had the idea/need for a remote library. I have several pc's/laptops/servers in the house, and I never really know where I'll be sitting down when I decide to add some more content to my prs-505. I was thinking that if one copy of Calibre could connect to the content server of another one and download the metadata.db, it would know all the books available and list them as though they are in the local library. The only thing left to do after that is to allow (authenticated by login or certificates?) other "trusted" copies of Calibre to http POST a box either with or without the indexing information and let the master server add it to the database. I originally though of using something like DropBox to do this, but already some of the larger stuff I have that I need only rarely on my reader have exceeded the 2GB limit you get for free. Does this make sense to anyone else? Would anyone else find this useful?