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tas03 · 10-14-2018, 12:24 PM

I am the original poster and I posted a reply after the first two responses. For some reason my reply did not show up.

I had posted in that reply that I knew how to move the entire library and was looking for an easy way to move just a few books. There was a method I had used and cannot remember what it was.

I ended up using the Content Server method. It was different from the way I moved a few books before, which I could swear had been through the Contact Server.

I wish I could find what that original method had been. The Content Server method that I ended up using is sort of cumbersome to use if you let things get out of hand and you have more than a book or two. I have over two thousand books in Calibre and copying the entire library to a thumbdrive on the desktop and then from the thumbdrive onto the laptop and into Calibre on the laptop can take a while if all you need to do is a few books.

I just had a flash as I was typing the above. I think I might have used my iPad and copied the books from Calibre Companion onto the laptop, but I am going to have to research that.

One of the bad things about getting old is that you forget something as simple as which two devices you used to move books around a month or two ago.

10-14-2018, 12:24 PM	#8
tas03 Zealot Posts: 129 Karma: 129368 Join Date: Feb 2017 Device: Nook Glowlight +, Nook Tab. , Nook Simple Touch, iPad Air, iPhone 6Se	I am the original poster and I posted a reply after the first two responses. For some reason my reply did not show up. I had posted in that reply that I knew how to move the entire library and was looking for an easy way to move just a few books. There was a method I had used and cannot remember what it was. I ended up using the Content Server method. It was different from the way I moved a few books before, which I could swear had been through the Contact Server. I wish I could find what that original method had been. The Content Server method that I ended up using is sort of cumbersome to use if you let things get out of hand and you have more than a book or two. I have over two thousand books in Calibre and copying the entire library to a thumbdrive on the desktop and then from the thumbdrive onto the laptop and into Calibre on the laptop can take a while if all you need to do is a few books. I just had a flash as I was typing the above. I think I might have used my iPad and copied the books from Calibre Companion onto the laptop, but I am going to have to research that. One of the bad things about getting old is that you forget something as simple as which two devices you used to move books around a month or two ago.