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DrJoe · 10-08-2019, 06:03 PM

Thanks for the replies.

I use Calibre to manage my library, but use my Android tablet for reading.

So my process is to download books on my tablet, copy to a UCB C / USB 3.0 flash drive, move over to my laptop, import into my Calibre library which is on an external hard drive, export the epub's to a folder on the flash drive drive, then copy back to the book directory on my tablet. *whew*. But everything is well organized in subfolders by author. The laptop is from work, so I don't copy anything locally to it.

I had tried keeping the Calibre library on the flash drive, but suffered regular corruption of files swapping the flash drive between the tablet and the pc. At this point I think it was related to the unmounting algorithm used by ES File Explorer, which I no longer use. Solid Explorer uses the system manager to unmount flash drives, and the problem went away.

So I was thinking of going back to the flash drive. Then I thought, maybe I should cut out the flash drive middle-man. Which brought up the question of running Calibre Portable from the tablet.

Thanks for your thoughts,

Joe

10-08-2019, 06:03 PM	#5
DrJoe Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: PRS-300	Thanks for the replies. I use Calibre to manage my library, but use my Android tablet for reading. So my process is to download books on my tablet, copy to a UCB C / USB 3.0 flash drive, move over to my laptop, import into my Calibre library which is on an external hard drive, export the epub's to a folder on the flash drive drive, then copy back to the book directory on my tablet. whew. But everything is well organized in subfolders by author. The laptop is from work, so I don't copy anything locally to it. I had tried keeping the Calibre library on the flash drive, but suffered regular corruption of files swapping the flash drive between the tablet and the pc. At this point I think it was related to the unmounting algorithm used by ES File Explorer, which I no longer use. Solid Explorer uses the system manager to unmount flash drives, and the problem went away. So I was thinking of going back to the flash drive. Then I thought, maybe I should cut out the flash drive middle-man. Which brought up the question of running Calibre Portable from the tablet. Thanks for your thoughts, Joe