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Emptied of expectation. Relax. ([personal profile] tinyjo) wrote2011-03-27 04:45 pm
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More ebooking

Note to self: how to create your own ebook catalog using calibre, calibre OPDS and dropbox. If it wasn't for the fact that my ebook library is currently 1.9GB I would totally already be setting this up. As it is, I need to think about pruning first, which I don't *really* want to do, or some kind of less space limited solution. Of course, I could always set this up so that it's only accessible from home and put it on the server, but it'd be nice to have it in the cloud too... I know - my life, so hard. I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, btw, but Calibre is really really good if you've got an ebook collection - it's helped me format swap my old prc ebooks I had on my Nokia into ePubs to read on my Android, which made me very happy. I hate getting stuck in a particular format.

Spent part of this afternoon downloading and trying out loads and loads of eBook reader apps as the one I was using wasn't displaying paragraph breaks properly in some books, which got kind of annoying. Have settled on Moon+ for now, but I quite liked Kobo too. Any other recommendations?
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[identity profile] malerin.livejournal.com 2011-03-27 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Not for nothing, but my ebook library is around the size of yours, and I've mirrored it to Dropbox with no problem. It's definitely doable. :) The only thing is that you'd probably have to get a few people to join as referrals to you in order to up your free dropbox space allowance, which is kind of shameless, but I did it. (And if you were feeling saucy, you could probably fake it somehow.)

(and yes, calibre is awesome. i use the built-in calibre content server to give me access to my books remotely, but I connect directly to my computer, not to dropbox, but my computer is on all the time, so it's not an issue)
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[identity profile] tinyjo.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'd have to set up another account and get it inflated. It really annoys me that Dropbox don't have an inbetween payment option because I would totally go for it if they had one...

[identity profile] nuttyxander.livejournal.com 2011-03-27 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you on Android or iOS? Bluefire is the best around for EPUB to my mind, but it's not quite yet appeared. any day now. Great on iOS though.

[identity profile] tinyjo.livejournal.com 2011-04-13 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I'm on Android, so no Bluefire yet...
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