They have also made Calibre look a little less crappy on high definition screens, and added a conversion to .docx: https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve
The Calibre Content Server
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Re: The Calibre Content Server
#22I thought that this was a recently added feature. Turns out it has been there since at least 2011 (based on a forum thread about it). Will have to try it!
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you just put your library and database on git or Dropbox? It should just work, unless you're accessing them from two devices at the same time.
Exactly. The problem is that you lose searchability. On the filesystem, Calibre organizes your library in a series of subdirectories named by author. If you want to find a book by title, or some other criteria... or even when it's a book with multiple co-authors and don't know which one Calibre selected as the primary... then you'll have a bad time.
Don't people learn how to use their OS's file searching capabilities anymore?
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#24It would be great if this feature was extended so that I can sync my books across different Calibre installations on different machines.
Hell... yes. That would be a holy grail for me. I store everything in Calibre. When I buy an eBook from Amazon, the first thing I do is strip the DRM. Because even though I'm basically happy with my Kindle library, I don't want to lose all my stuff if they change their policies to something I'm not happy with in the future. So I'm doing most of my library management from a PC, but doing most of my reading from a Kind…
[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) is the perfect tool for the job. Set Calibre's directory on your PC as the main folder, and it'll propagate changes wherever you want.
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've yet to run into an Amazon-purchased book that Calibre can't liberate, and I haven't even updated Calibre since installing it a few years back. Where are you seeing this turn up? If I need to be looking for alternate sellers or finding some workaround, better to know it ahead of time, I suppose.
KFX just started rolling out in recent months. As the parent post said, the only way right now to "crack" is to dodge it. To have Amazon send you a copy of your book for a older device or older version of the PC software that doesn't support KFX, so they have to send you a crackable format instead. I haven't done anything with Barnes & Noble in quite some time, but I've been curious to try a eBook purchase from there…
That explains why I haven't seen it! I haven't updated Kindle for PC in years, either.
Thanks for the info! I might have to give B&N a try myself, although at the moment the only books on my list are preordered.
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#26I've always just used Calibre because it's a nice way for me to strip DRM and then archive my books. I've never really used it any kind of active way. Since I buy pretty much everything from Amazon, I already effectively have a content server. Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)? I'm curious to see what the presentation is like. What's the typography like? Does the screen dim after…
How do you differentiate between DRM-free and DRM-protected books on Amazon?
Up until I have read this comment, I didn't even know that Amazon support DRM-free books.
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#27It would be great if this feature was extended so that I can sync my books across different Calibre installations on different machines.
Can't you just put your library and database on git or Dropbox? It should just work, unless you're accessing them from two devices at the same time.
I do, with Dropbox, and it mostly works... but it's very easy to get the database corrupted even if you are careful not to have more than one instance of Calibre open.
I haven't tried using a source control system, that might work better. Hmmm.
And of course that only works for computers, There isn't a full version of Calibre for Android.
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#28I did a little go server to expose an opds basend of a dir structure
https://github.com/dubyte/dir2opds
So far I only tested on moonreader
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#29I love it in principle but, considering how small most books are relatively to storage space offered by modern devices, even mobile ones, what is the upside of storing content centrally instead of just carrying a copy with you?
Not all ebooks are small. Especially when they're in PDF. I have some that are upwards of 20-30 mb.
Re: The Calibre Content Server
#30It looks like you still need Calibre GUI to add books- this is read-only interface.
I was hoping that this could replace my Google Drive folder with various papers on interesting topics I'd like to read.