Thread: Can Calibre Index books stored locally and remotely?
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Old 11-26-2018, 04:47 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by kacir View Post
There is also a portable version of Calibre that you can put on an external disk and maintain the library on that disk. That might be the path of least resistance for you. Please note that a typical book is under 1 MB, so a library with 2000 [Amazon] books might be 10GB, with a very generous margin of error. As long as the books are not scanned pdfs, or heavily illustrated or perhaps comics. You can buy 1TB external hard-disk for under 50 bucks on Amazon. You can buy 32GB USB flash disk for under 10 dollars.
The OP is on a MacOS system, the portable version of calibre is a repackaged Windows 32 bit install.

That said if the OPs Macbook Pro has a USB port (preferably 3.x), he could keep a consolidated library on an external drive. and if 1Tb isn't enough a 4TB WD drive can be had for ~$100. Periodic incremental backups could be done to the cloud using a file sync tool, I do it every day, so it only takes a few minutes.

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