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Making Calibre Portable USB drives on LInux
I would like to make Calibre Portable USB Windows drives including a library of books for my friends.
I run Linux Mint. Is there any way to do this on Mint without Wine (which I have never used)? I am okay with the command line so any instructions at this point would be great. (NB: I am referring to Fanfiction downloaded thought the FanFicFare plugin, so there are no copyright issues with the "books" since they fall under a version of fair use. It's a greyish area legally, but from what I remember from my days as an entertainment law paralegal, it's legal in the strictest sense.) Last edited by Scichick; 12-05-2015 at 08:12 PM. Reason: Clarification |
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As theducks says, I assume this will be a library of Public Domain or Creative Commons-licensed books.
![]() You can download Calibre Portable from calibre's website, and I assume WINE won't have a problem running the self-extracting installer executable. ![]() Just copy the library you created so it is in place of the "Calibre Library" folder in the portable install. The only problem you may run into is pathname issues, since linux is case-sensitive but Windows isn't. The problem is usually moving from Windows to linux though ![]() If you don't want to use WINE, you can probably use p7zip to extract the exe file, unfortunately, I have no idea what will work properly since calibre uses a custom exe, not anything NSIS/InstallShield/Inno -based. And I didn't move all the way to linux just so I could go around extracting Windows programs on my linux box! ![]() Last edited by eschwartz; 12-05-2015 at 07:08 PM. |
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First off: I am using Calibre in this case for Fanfiction downloaded though the plugin so as far as I know there are no copyright issues with the "books" since they fall under a version of fair use. It's a greyish area legally, but from what I remember from my days as an entertainment law paralegal, it's legal in the strictest sense. My friends are still in the dark ages browsing and reading online so I thought they'd like this.
Thank you so much for your prompt suggestions! I'll let you know the results of my efforts. |
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You're welcome.
![]() (And as I understand it, fanfiction isn't copyrighted for the obvious reasons. ![]() ![]() |
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