Running Calibre in a Cloud

[wwaldo]

After searching and reading, I am no closer to discovering an answer. My question is:

Can I run my Calibre library in a could without having to maintain the library on my machine. If yes which cloud is compatable with calibre.

I have heard of the Calibre Cloud app, however I do not have any android devices so cannot download to my PC.

The reason that I want to run it strictly from a cloud is to save space on my laptop.

thanks.

[BetterRed]

wwaldo - Some folks install calibre portable to Dropbox so that they can access it and all its settings and libraries from any windows machine - home computer, laptop, desktop at work, public PC in library etc. Other folks install calibre on a thumb drive and carry it in their pocket/purse.

You have to maintain the library from a windows, os/x or linux platform (preferably only one of them). Calibre doesn't take that much space ~200MB for 64bit, ~30MB for config data and say 2.5GB for a reasonable size library - so 3GB is maybe all you'll save.

Unless you have a lot of large 'books' eg I have one library that's 600GB, but its full of video, audio and image albums.

BR

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

wwaldo - Some folks install calibre portable to Dropbox so that they can access it and all its settings and libraries from any windows machine - home computer, laptop, desktop at work, public PC in library etc. Other folks install calibre on a thumb drive and carry it in their pocket/purse.

You have to maintain the library from a windows, os/x or linux platform (preferably only one of them). Calibre doesn't take that much space ~200MB for 64bit, ~30MB for config data and say 2.5GB for a reasonable size library - so 3GB is maybe all you'll save.

Unless you have a lot of large 'books' eg I have one library that's 600GB, but its full of video, audio and image albums.

BR

My config folder is 7.79 MB, 7.09 MB of which is the plugins and assorted stuff. (And 4.42 MB of that is a database cache for OverDrive Link).



There is no way to avoid having the files saved on the computer a mounted drive at some point, but disk space is usually pretty cheap.
My laptop is old enough to have a 40 GB HDD, which is pretty cramped. So I keep a lot of things on my flashdrive, including my calibre libraries.