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Old 01-13-2019, 04:35 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
My personal choice was keeping the calibre library local and using save to disk to generate a copy for a cloud library. This fit with the recommendation to not access the calibre library outside of calibre and lets you set the save to disk parameters as you prefer.

If you browse through this forum, you can find several threads on issues with using cloud storage for a live calibre library. Another one of those not recommended items where it may work for quite a while and then $#@%^ time.
This solution will work if one only wants to read on other devices. But if one wants to edit one's library on another device (say, a Windows tablet), then the only solution will be to keep a live library in the cloud.

There's no good option for such use cases to this day. Keeping your library on a network drive is no better than a cloud solution. The content server might allow metadata editing in the future, but it still won't allow to edit the books themselves, or so I have understood. And it probably won't allow to use the calibre plugins in editing metadata (like "count pages" or "generate cover")

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