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Originally Posted by Epsilon Rose
Needing to use compatible file systems is not some weird or insurmountable problem. You just format the card in a format all of the OSs you want to work with understand, and that's pretty easy to do when you just want to work with windows and android.
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No you don't.
If Calibre for Windows, the card must be NTFS.
If Linux, ext4. If calibre for Apple, then whatever that Apple is using.
It's pointless saving of storage and risking messing up the library. The library isn't just the ebooks, but the database and program.
Penny wise pound foolish.
Yes, I said earlier it can theoretically be done, but it's crazy. Put the Calibre library SYSTEM on the computer of choice and pretend those ebook files don't exist. That's WHY Calibre can connect to USB MS, USB MTP (devices), mount a disk/sd-card/folder as if a device or save (export) to disk. There is even a content server option with Web and OPDS interfaces.
You've got a fixed obsession with only having ONE copy of the ebooks. That's not how a proper library system, or Calibre works.
Calibre just about works on a RPi4B with only 2G RAM and mate Desktop at QHD or even 4K (tested 6500 ebooks and about 500 PDFs) on an SD card, but it's the SD card for the Linux OS. Madness to take it out and stick in tablet, even if it accepts ext4 format.
I don't think you've understood anything much or you wouldn't be still arguing it will work and be fine. It's not absolutely impossible, but reckless.