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Originally Posted by Popup
With the latest ChromeOS (74, as of this writing), it's easy to share folders with the linux container (from 'Files', right-click the folder and select 'share with linux'). If I plug in my kindle, it shows up in the linux container as /mnt/chromeos/removable/Kindle.
I had a quick try with Calibre, and it looks like it's possible to use the 'Folder Device Interface' plugin to access it. It's not quite as automagic as just plugging in an USB device, but it works reasonably well.
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But even in Chrome OS 74, you can't create a Calibre library on removable storage. You still get the "corrupted" messages mentioned above. If anyone solves this, I sure would like to know.
My Chromebook has only 32 GB of internal storage. I've added a 512 GB microSD card. I'd like to keep a Calibre library of approximately 15 GB on the device, but that's much too big to fit in the remaining internal storage. That's why I'm so interested in this issue.
Your post inspired me to try Calibre's "Connect to Folder" interface on a microSD card folder containing a small copied portion of my Calibre library. It sort of works. The covers don't display. It does open epubs, but it doesn't open PDFs. (For PDFs it calls the Chrome browser but does't pass a usable file path). And it doesn't seem to want to stay connected. It drops the folder-as-device after a while.
Still, that's better than nothing. Thanks for the idea.
I'd love to see the problem solved completely, though, so a real library could be stored on removable storage.