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Originally Posted by kjdavies
I don't believe you can do that now. As I recall, the server grabs the 'running calibre' stick and doesn't let another instance run, just like having calibre active means you can't run calibredb (outside of a few change-nothing operations like --help).
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that's why I added my closing phrase.
At one stage I ran the server from calibre portable version 3.48 alongside later versions of calibre desktop. When that started to play up I switched to CalibreSpy for a while, it provided read only access to multiple libraries concurrently. But afaik it's stopped working and the developer hasn't been seen for months.
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