#4 BetterRed 08-20-2016, 10:21 DMcCunney - How big is your library? My initial reaction to splitting a library into multiples based on format and the capacity of backup thumb drives is - no, no, don't do that!! Is anyone else using Calibre to manage multiple physical libraries? What sort of strategy do you use to do so? I can live without it if I must, but it would be nice to have a list of everything I could search to see what I have.Īnother is the best way to use Calibre to do the split. One issue I don't see a way to address is being able to get a top level overview that shows all volumes in both libraries. That's handy for selecting titles to potentially add the the tablet, but doesn't address the physical size of the library problem.) (I'm aware of and am experimenting with Virtual Libraries. There would be a second backup USB thumb drive for the PDFs and the like. The ePub/Mobi library is that one that would contain things to be added to the tablet. So I'm looking at splitting out the Calibre Library by content type, with ePub and Mobi in one library instance, and PDF and other things in a second. FBReader has a PDF viewer plugin that works well in that it will display the PDFs, but the 7" screen makes trying to read them painful, and the big ones take an approximation of forever to open. More often, the content is only available as PDF, and some of those are huge (like stuff from, where 100MB or larger file size is not uncommon.) In general, I don't even try to read PDFs on the tablet. Some things I only see in Mobi format (which can be converted to ePub, but since FBReader handles ePub and Mobi, I usually don't bother.) By preference, I get ePub, but sometimes there isn't an ePub version. My normal eBook viewer is a 7" Android tablet, viewed using the open source FBReader for Android. I've already had to migrate to a larger thumb drive, and at some point may need to do so again.Īnother, related to the first, is content. After I've added books and updated the metadata, I use an open source program called Free File Sync to mirror the changes on the HD copy to the thumb drive. I have the master library on the HD, and a backup on a USB thumb drive. #1 DMcCunney 08-20-2016, 03:39 PMI'm starting to contemplate breaking out my Calibre Library into more than one volume.
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