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Originally Posted by Starson17
This marks you as someone who probably does not use the content server. Once you split the library, you lose remote access to all the books that are not in your current library. If you used the server, you'd want access to everything, and that requires a single library.
My wife and I use the server as our main access for some of our readers that Calibre does not consider to be ereaders (phones and WinMo-based). Server access is the way I get all my News (recipe based ebooks) onto those readers. I like to read in bed, and I can just pull whatever strikes my fancy in via wifi without having to figure out what I'm going to want to read in advance.
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True. Both of my ereaders (PocketPro and Palm) can only be updated via USB, so I haven't worried about servers. When I move and acquire a smart phone, this might be an issue for me. On the other hand, I wouldn't want my Star Trek books cluttering up a content server either. In a few years, when ereaders routinely come with WiFi built in, it might start bothering me. Since Calibre makes it really easy to merge libraries, it shouldn't be much of an obstacle.
I do agree that splitting up a library the way the OP suggested would make it very difficult to find and manage books.