[jdege]

I've been keeping my ebooks in Calibre for many years, running it on a series of Linux boxes.

I've always run calibre.service and configured ports through my firewall so I could connect Calibre Companion to my Calibre repository from wherever I might be.

On my Linux desktop I've configured my menus to run scripts that shutdown calibre.service, run the Calibre UI, then start calibre.service back up.

I've just finished moving my KeePass database to DropBox, and I'm thinking about whether to move my Calibre repository to Dropbox, as well.

There's one critical function I've not been about to do from Calibre Companion, and that's to add new books from my mobile device. What I've been doing, instead, is to use sftp to copy the file from my mobile to my Linux server, to ssh onto my Linux server, then using calibredb to add the book to my library. (I have a script that stops and restarts Calibre.service).

But how would all this work if I was using Dropbox? Dropbox shares files, it doesn't run services. So I'd expect the Calibre UI on my desktops and the Caliber Companions on my decides to access the files directly. So I'd not be running calibre.service at all.

But it's there a way to run calibredb to add books to a Calibre repository on Dropbox?