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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I've tried all the local network solutions mentioned in this thread. One downside of them is that they tend to be slow. The fastest way for me is Dropbox. Now Dropbox might be overkill if you move your books between devices seldom and the amount of books is not that big, network solutions are better in that case (I need to sync my laptop and tablet libraries every week, sometimes every day). Also the Dropbox free storage is pretty small, you might need the paid version.
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I don't believe it's that local network copies are slower. The bottleneck is always on the slowest link in the chain so if your LAN is limited to, say, 100Mbps, then that's also the max internet (ergo Dropbox) speed you'll get.
Rather, it's likely because Dropbox runs and syncs continuously in the background so one doesn't really notice its actual transfer speed. Dropbox also doesn't require both computers to be running at the same time and that wait time before you can shut down computers when doing LAN copies can be a major factor in making the LAN seem slower.
I've actually done FreeFileSync or robocopy transfers of my full Dropbox folder between computers and/or NAS. A complete copy over LAN usually takes minutes whereas an initial Dropbox sync takes hours.