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Old 09-09-2013, 09:10 AM   #1
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Use Calibre in a book club.
Hello

My wife belongs to a wine and gossip club, (sorry I mean book club ) .

The ladies would like to make the move to ebooks as most of them now have some sort of e-reader (android, kindles and ipads ) and I am trying to think of a way that they can "share" their books obviously bearing in mind copyright infringement.

I thought calibre mobile would be ideal solution, however I need dead easy and foolproof instructions / methods to load new books into the library and then download them on to the various devices.

any advice appreciated .

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The easiest would be to set up calibre on a laptop, and run calibre server on that over wifi. Those with Android or iOS should be able to connect and download over wifi. Mail the books to those with Kindle. The others would have to bring USB sticks and use sneakernet to share.

But this would not be possible for most recent books due to DRM and copyright restrictions. But there are plenty of books that are free to share available here on MobileRead for instance.
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The easiest would be to set up calibre on a laptop, and run calibre server on that over wifi. Those with Android or iOS should be able to connect and download over wifi. Mail the books to those with Kindle. The others would have to bring USB sticks and use sneakernet to share.

But this would not be possible for most recent books due to DRM and copyright restrictions. But there are plenty of books that are free to share available here on MobileRead for instance.
Kindle NT has a 'experimental' browser (buried in the menus) that should work with the content server
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... bearing in mind copyright infringement.
But you can't ignore the copyright issue.

From what you've said, this is not a case of one person wanting to read his books on different devices that he owns, or even sharing the book among members of his immediate family. The situation you've described sounds more like a case of one person buying the book, and then distributing to other people who have not paid for it.

Whatever technical solution you find, the fact is that it is still a copyright infringement - unless you stick to public domain books, of course.

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