And, as I look toward a future of working on many devices-home ones, work ones, maybe a tablet-being able to just open up a Dropbox app and see everything in a list is supremely helpful. But sometimes, it’s really helpful to just be able to add a new item on the go, without waiting to return to my home computer. I love some of Calibre’s features, and I do think putting in the proper metadata before I send it to the Cloud keeps things running smoothly when it comes to features like cross-device synchronization. It would go where it’s supposed to, and then when I get home, I could copy it into Calibre for sending, and be done. I could use work computers, my iPad or any device. The advantage would be that if I get a new book, I can send it to its eventual home from any computer using the Dropbox web interface.
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What if I just used Calibre for sending to the Cloud when I wanted to transfer a book to my devices? I could edit the metadata and make sure everything looks good, send it to my Kindle cloud-then archive the book in a plain old folder in Dropbox. So I see some appeal in moving things out of the Calibre ‘library’ format.
This setup should make our lives easier, not more complex! But if I leave them where they are, on the computer which is equipped with more robust specs to handle a library as big as mine, it means I won’t be able to manage things as easily on the go. I would have to back them up manually, and that is a hassle. Of course, my first question was what would happen to my e-books? If I take them out of Dropbox and put them onto my ‘own’ computer, they wouldn’t be remotely backed up to the Cloud. We would get me a netbook-sized mini laptop and I could access my stuff via the Cloud. What he’d like to do is set it up as some sort of family media hub-he can do his basic computing tasks on it, and it can store the iTunes library, photos and so on.
So he’s thinking of taking over the HP laptop I have, which is almost new, but has proved a bit too bulky and cumbersome for me. He has been making do on my ancient Macbook since his needs are minimal.
I was thinking about this again as the Beloved has been pondering a new computer purchase. For example, I no longer plug any devices into the computer-I side-load books onto my Kindle-equipped devices via the Cloud. But many of the functions which first drew me to Calibre have become a tad obsolete as the Cloud-based infrastructure has developed. I use it often to organize and categorize my books. I have been a long-time fan of the Calibre e-book library software.
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