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Originally Posted by ChrisZA
Tips/Tricks: - If you have a web site of your own, just copy your entire library structure and the new _CATALOG directory to the server, and follow itimpi's instructions on adding an online stanza catalog to your iPhone.
- Otherwise you have to turn your PC into a web server on your wifi network. That requires some savvy; set up a website in IIS mapped to the calibre library directory, disable or open your firewall, find your PC's IP, then do as per itimpi's instructions to add an online stanza catalog to your iPhone. If you know this stuff it's dead easy, but if you don't, rather stick to option 1
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Step 2 needn't be that complicated. Prior to installing Apache on my computer, I was using the very simple and easy to use
HTTP File Server (HFS) by rejetto for simple http file serving. You just add your Calibre library folder to HFS (Menu -> Add folder from disk -> (select folder you want to share) -> Real Folder). It's even nice enough to display your local IP address (home network) for you and it can even find your external IP address (internet). For simple file sharing tasks such as this one, rejetto HFS is pretty good. If you want to share your library over the internet (e.g. so you can access via 3G when you're not at home), you can easily password protect your folders (right-click on folder -> Set user/pass).
