Syncronize book and pdf reading using a local private Cloud

[Xwang]

Originally Posted by shalym

You can install Calibre on either of those and run the server. Go to the Calibre forum and check it out--it's very flexible. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/fo...play.php?f=166

Shari

Good to know, thanks!
I'll try again with the calibre server later, because yesterday I was a bit in a hurry and maybe I've not set up it correctly.

[shalym]

Originally Posted by Xwang

Good to know, thanks!
I'll try again with the calibre server later, because yesterday I was a bit in a hurry and maybe I've not set up it correctly.

Great! Please do ask questions about anything you are unsure about in the Calibre forum--there are subforums that are dedicated to the server and the viewer.

Shari

[haertig]

I am getting confused on your requirements. Initially you said:

I would like to know if it is possible to create a sort of private local cloud so that to be able to access to those files from the locally connected devices (PC with linux and windows, android tablet and smartphone) and possibly being able to get the last read page when changing from a device to the other.

Moreover it is important to avoid local copies of the files on the reading devices.

Then you said:

I would like to have a portable device so that to
1) be able to access the library even where WAN access is not available (train journeys with lot of galleries, beach and so on)

And finally:

I would like to have a portable device so that to
1) be able to access the library even where WAN access is not available (train journeys with lot of galleries, beach and so on)
2) avoid to have my pc always on and to open access from the internet to it
3) avoid to have a fix public IP to be reachable from outside the net.

In order to not have the books locally downloaded to your client reading device, you will have to access them from a server (the "private cloud" that you mentioned). You said you wanted to be able to access the books "where WAN access is not available" and also "avoid to always have my PC on".

I don't understand how you are planning for your client reading device to avoid storing books locally by accessing them from a server instead, but you don't want to run a server, and have all this work without network (WAN) access either.

And this has now confused me further:

As I've said with an "Intel compute stick" (https://www.intel.it/content/www/it/...ute-stick.html) or a rasbperry both powered by a powerbank.

Since you mentioned "powerbank", are you planning to run the server on a Raspberry Pi and take the server along with you into the field, running on a powerbank?

Sorry, I'm totally lost now.

[Xwang]

Originally Posted by haertig

I am getting confused on your requirements. Initially you said:



Then you said:

And finally:


In order to not have the books locally downloaded to your client reading device, you will have to access them from a server (the "private cloud" that you mentioned). You said you wanted to be able to access the books "where WAN access is not available" and also "avoid to always have my PC on".

I don't understand how you are planning for your client reading device to avoid storing books locally by accessing them from a server instead, but you don't want to run a server, and have all this work without network (WAN) access either.

And this has now confused me further:

Since you mentioned "powerbank", are you planning to run the server on a Raspberry Pi and take the server along with you into the field, running on a powerbank?

Sorry, I'm totally lost now.

Yes the idea is to have the server with me running on powerbank.
The devices connect to it using wifi, but I do not want (if possible) that the client devices (smartphone, tablet, PC) make copies of the files I'm reading.
From my point of view it has not much sense to worry about the hardware part if the software part does not permit me to access the library in the WIFI LAN keeping the reading page status aligned between devices.
In other words at the moment I'm less worried about the hardware requirements than the software ones and for such reason I've only asked about the software part of the "project". Sorry if it has created confusion.

[Xwang]

Originally Posted by haertig

Next, I tried a book that is hosted in my Calibre database. I accessed the book from a 3rd web app I run named "Calibre-Web". Despite the name, this is NOT official Calibre software. It just is able to read a Calibre database. I personally like this 3rd party server better than the one that is built into Calibre. Anyway, Calibre-Web has a "Read in Browser" option, and that is what I used from the client devices. The client devices use a web browser to access the Calibre-Web server. With this setup I do not have to download books locally. And it remembers reading position, but only on a per-device basis. It does not sync reading position across different devices.

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I've tried to use the calibre server but I do not like its interface and the way it shows pdf files.

So now I've installed Calibre-web and I've found what you have already said before, but it's pretty similar to what I'm searching for and there is already an opened issue so that to have the last page synced between devices.
Is there any sub forum thread that discuss this software?