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I 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!
I'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…
My response is to avoid buying ebooks from Amazon if possible. Most of my purchases are from Weightless Books [1] which sells only DRM free books and magazines. Granted, this is a limited and small market (SF related stuff) but if I have a choice of getting a book DRM free from a vendor or getting it from Amazon, I would avoid Amazon, even if its price was cheaper. [1] https://weightlessbooks.com/
I 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?
I can also throw up another instance to serve to specific groups, like relatives or kids, so they can download and network print deemed safe content like crosswords or recipes.
You can probably see why I wouldn't want that on my phone all at once.
I 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!
The content server has been around for a while, but the ability to read the books in the browser is new.
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Out of curiosity, how does your DB on Dropbox get corrupted if not by having more than one instance of Calibre open? I'm asking because I use Dropbox to store my Keepass DB, and so far (2+ years) I haven't had any problems.
I don't know. But I occasionally find files with names like foo(username's conflicted copy).db. I do the Keepass thing too, and this has happened with it's files as well, but that doesn't seem to cause any problems.
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Does this mean if you used kindle unlimited you could effectively keep the books forever?
If you are going to pirate the book, you might as well just go straight to something like Pirates Bay. It's much easier.
Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern.
Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;)
EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
To be honest though, calibre just works for me. Sure it's not a super optimized c++ project but there's so many things it can do. See I just need to transfer ebooks to my kindle, and it does it perfectly every time.
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.