2 Kobos, 4 users with shelves & progress sync, highlights to Readwise. Possible?

[a52435443333]

We're a family of 4 with 2 Kobo Libra2 devices. We all want to use them. We may add a bigger e-ink device in the future and will also want to share that.

So far I've set up Calibre with a single library, and Calibre-web with 4 shelves, one for each family member. I have created 2 Calibre-web users, each of which is attached to one Libra2.

That gets me a single centralised library, and I can add books to the kids shelves from the comfort of my PC using Calibre-web, knowing that it will sync to the device overnight without me having to do anything else.

The downsides are,

1. Each shelf only syncs to one device, not both. Even if the shelf is marked as public and set to sync for the 2nd Kobo user, it still only appears on the 1st device. So if I want Kid1Shelf to appear on both devices I have to work around it by creating 2 shelves, Kid1Shelf-KoboDevice1, and Kid1Shelf-KoboDevice2
2. I don't think I can sync highlights to Readwise or any other highlight manager
3. I don't think I can sync progress for each user.

I have installed KOReader, and I can export highlights to Readwise. I have also read a thread about installing multiple copies of KOReader and creating a menu item to launch a copy for each user, which would let me store the sync progress for each user.

But, I've not found out how I can manage a subset of the library for each user from a PC and then have it easily synchronise with each device. The dropbox integration for example appears to need a manual send of each book to each device.

Am I missing something? Is it possible to get library management, multi-user, and highlights using either Kobo Reader or KOReader? Thanks.

[AsherMaximum]

Originally Posted by a52435443333

Each shelf only syncs to one device, not both. Even if the shelf is marked as public and set to sync for the 2nd Kobo user, it still only appears on the 1st device. So if I want Kid1Shelf to appear on both devices I have to work around it by creating 2 shelves, Kid1Shelf-KoboDevice1, and Kid1Shelf-KoboDevice2

I also wanted to be able to have public shelves synced to multiple users.

I've made a change to my install that does just that - there's a new option on the user page to "Sync public shelves marked for Kobo sync".

Any user that has that checked will get books from any public shelves marked for kobo sync.

If they try to remove the book from their device, it will show back up after a sync.
I had to do some messy stuff to make that work - the other option was to let them delete it, which didn't actually remove it from the shelf like it normally does.

If I left it that way though, the only way to get it back on their device would be to remove it from and re-add it back to the shelf.

Here's my commit with all the changes:

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