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[Old Thread] Remote library support (not content server)
Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone else has had the idea/need for a remote library. I have several pc's/laptops/servers in the house, and I never really know where I'll be sitting down when I decide to add some more content to my prs-505. I was thinking that if one copy of Calibre could connect to the content server of another one and download the metadata.db, it would know all the books available and list them as though they are in the local library. The only thing left to do after that is to allow (authenticated by login or certificates?) other "trusted" copies of Calibre to http POST a box either with or without the indexing information and let the master server add it to the database. I originally though of using something like DropBox to do this, but already some of the larger stuff I have that I need only rarely on my reader have exceeded the 2GB limit you get for free. Does this make sense to anyone else? Would anyone else find this useful? |
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You have a couple of options...
1. You can put the calibre library on a shared volume and install calibre on each of your PCs to access it. Just make sure you only have it running on 1 PC at a time. 2. Run the content server on one PC and you will have access to your library via a web browser. Granted, you can only use the browser to view/download stuff... you can't edit or add (unless Kovid added this without me knowing). i'm not sure you need more than those two options. BOb |
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That's where I'm at right now, but it isn't really optimal. I know none of this exists right now, I'm just asking to see if others would find this useful as well and then we can beg Kovid to implement it :> |
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This might actually make the cross platform stuff a little easier too. BOb |
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Thanks for bouncing ideas around though, I really think this is a great program with even more amazing things to come. |
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Oh well, it was just a pipe dream. I like it as it is too. BOb |
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The best long term solution to this is, IMO, really to do two things
1) Support connecting to multiple libraries in the GUI with a default sqlite library as it is now 2) Add support for a MySQL server backend |
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What about going multi-server. Having the UI be a seperate process that talks to the server. There can be multiple clients talking to the server so as to not have any corruption. This would be more a 3-tier rather than two tier as you suggest above. BOb |
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I'd rather not code a custom content server and have the UI connect to it since that is alot of work for relatively little gain. |
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Sounds like moving to MySQL would be the way to go. How much work is it to move form sqlite to MySQL. Would you support both or just move 100% over? BOb |
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