You could even maintain two copies of Calibre Portable, one for the wife and one for your daughter.Ĭurious: how big is your library, in terms of books and disk space.

However, if you are disinclined to use calibre-server and you want your wife and daughter to have read-only access to a common library you could make use of the CalibreSpy plugin - it can be run from a batch file. One of the major reasons the calibre-server feature exists is to give multiple users access to a common library - which is one of the things you want. Consider the Original PC Library location a place to keep a backup as portable drives do suffer from transit disasters. To work with the calibre library in another computer. Why not just Copy your Entire Library to your Portable (remember to copy your Preferences also) and use That Portable on both (connect to a mainboard USB2 port, not a Hub for best performance). Will wife or daughter add books to the thumb drive? If so, file synching will create mismatches between database and library folders. To take back up of the e-book library, copy the entire e-book library folder and store in a safe location. Does portable scrape the directory structure for new additions at every startup? How would it know that there are new books there? If I understand & correctly, then syncing the files in the 'Calibre Library' folder in portable should be sufficient. I'm not really interested in getting metadata changes from the thumb-drive to the desktop.

How to copy calibre library to portable