[toddos]

I love Calibre and currently have it running on my Windows Home Server. I can manage it using remote desktop and download books on my iPhone using Stanza without having to connect the iPhone to the physical machine running Calibre. One little problem, though. I purchased a Sony ebook reader through yesterday's woot deal. It should arrive in the next couple of weeks so I'm getting prepared, and unfortunately the Sony doesn't have wifi to download books.

I realize Calibre can sync to the Sony easily enough if it's connected to the computer, but I rarely physically access my WHS. I'd like to keep my library consolidated on the WHS, and I keep Calibre runnin 24/7 so I can download on the iphone whenever I like, but now I also need a convenient way to get books onto the Sony. Ideally, I'd be able to run an instance of Calibre on my laptop that connects to the instance of Calibre running on the WHS for library access rather than recreating my library locally. Is this possible to do? I'd even be happy with a simple read-only view of the library that can just sync and not do any adding or editing. The one thing I can't do is share the database file from the server instance because Calibre locks the file as long as it's running and the server instance is always running.

Otherwise, I'm afraid that my only option may be to rely on Remote Desktop's ability to share USB devices with remote computers. Unfortunately that's often been buggy for me in the past and WHS is based on comparatively ancient technology (Windows Server 2003) and may not fully support device sharing scenarios.

Help! I really don't want to have to physically access my WHS all the