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Old 07-30-2022, 02:28 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by shamanNS View Post
Before trying all that maybe you could fist test what your grandmother thinks of using a "magic catalog" workflow: a poor man's alternative to real OPDS catalog where you create a "catalog" book that contains list of direct link URLs for downloading mobi files (has to be mobi since that extension is whitelisted in Kindle's browser, and click on link inside catalog book just opens the browser IIRC).

Well, that might work, if I setup everything server-side. The problem is that it wouldn’t be able to pick up on new additions, and wouldn’t be very searchable. Also, would be hard to do things like checking out and retuning books.
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