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Originally Posted by ekbell
I agree that calibre is not designed for a lending library but I found that it works well enough for keeping track of both my ebooks and pbooks.
I really want all my books in one database so that I'm not checking two databases to see if I have one particular book so my paper books are added to my Calibre library and tagged as pbook. (and when I'm checking if any of my pbooks are missing, I pull up my pbooks from the calibre server onto my tablet to create my checklist)
Before calibre I had entered most of them into a bar code scanning app that allowed export as CSV so when I switched to calibre I just had to master the Import List plugin.
Nowadays I just add them as I buy them.
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I'm in the middle of a couple year upgrading of all my infrastructure as I have money, resources and time. When it starts to solidify I might take and see if I can export my paper library from readerware and importing into calibre with that paper book notation.
Currently I am replacing 10 8tb and 10tb drives in my NAS with 18tb ones, as I am running out of room, moving to 10GBit fiber optic networking and taking an old x99 asus motherboard and putting a xeon 18 core cpu with 128 gigs of ram as a virtual host to run Plex, Audiobookshelf, multiple game servers for the kids, A homeassistant server, and a few virtual workstations that can be accessed remotely. other than the hard drives it's actually been moderately inexpensive.
anyone wanting to go to 10g networking its a good time to do it. You can pick up intel x520 SFP+ network cards for under 30 dollars all day as well as DAC cables cheap, or fiber-optic transceivers and fiber optic cables for under 20 dollars each.. actually usually under 10 dollars. Lot of data centers are moving to 25 gig and 100 gig networking so the older stuff is being sold off dirt cheap.. great for small office/home market.