Thread: Syncing/Connecting to another library, on another computer
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Old 01-18-2012, 12:32 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Hellmark View Post
If I use something like rsync for an entire library, can I then copy something from one library to another, after they're both on the same computer, and working under Calibre?
Easy. Right-click on the book(s), Copy-to-Library

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And yeah, cross platform would be nice. My stuff is a mix of Linux, Mac, and Windows (mostly Linux though).
Then presumably you're already aware of the occasional hiccups involved in passing stuff around cross-platform. So go ahead.

As long as you are doing all your 'library management' on one 'master' copy of the library, and making/syncing other copies for read-only use (perusing, sending to devices, etc) it's trivially easy and robust.

People get in trouble when they want to *manage* their library from/in two different places without thinking carefully about potential conflicts.
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