My mom uses Calibre on two laptops and has a Synology DS920+ NAS on her home network. I'd like to centralize her eBook storage on the NAS and streamline her experience using Calibre Server, if possible.
Two benefits that stand out are that metadata manually fixed on one laptop would instantly be reflected on the second laptop - the other benefit is that the NAS has a RAID 5 array, so nothing would be lost if a single drive failed (unlike the laptops).
I've followed
these instructions but haven't started importing the library yet as I have some fundamental questions and am not sure if this will actually work for her.
My mom occasionally travels with one or other of the laptops and will want to read eBooks from her library in places where she won't necessarily have internet service. This would render the Calibre web interface useless.
1) Is there any way to connect the regular Calibre client application to Calibre Server (instead of using the web interface)...
2) ...and then selectively locally cache part of the library, to allow for offline reading when there is no network connectivity to the Calibre Server?
My mom's keen to just keep two separate installs of Calibre going and have a local Calibre database on each of the two laptop C drives but I'm wondering if there's a more efficient way to manage this using Calibre Server, if I could work around the fact that there won't always be network connectivity on the client devices.
Any ideas?
