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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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Are you away from home for that long at a time that you need to edit your library from a second device?
calibre was not designed to be multiuser friendly and I see no compelling reason to attempt to use it in that fashion so my preference is to do all the adding/removing books, editing metadata, editing books, etc. on one device. Preferably with that device docked so I have dual monitors. This also helps to prevent the "I left calibre running on my computer at home, opened calibre on my laptop, did some library cleanup and now the library reports multiple errors. What can I do???" messages.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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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My Kobo purchases and library loans automatically sync to my ereader and I can read my Kobo or Kindle purchases on my iPad or Nexus tablet or, if truly desperate, on my phone. Keeping that in mind, I can't see any circumstances where I was jonesing so badly for a new read that any changes to my library couldn't wait until I got back to my laptop.
I do have a server at home where one of the VMs runs calibre's content server NATted out to the internet and a batch file that allows me to update it's copy of my library when I'm at home. I don't think of this as a source of new books but a handy demo of what calibre can do.