Comment 3 for bug 810527

calibre includes a content server that gives you read only access to your book collection over the network via HTTP. And work is going on currently to add support for a full read/write networked backend to calibre, i.e. you will be able to run a server on one machine and have calibre connect to it from another.

If you want to spend time working on calibre, I suggest you contribute to these efforts, rather than trying to change the storage strategy, as I am highly unlikely to accept a patch to change the storage strategy (changing it has a lot of implications in a lot of places in calibre code).

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 04:58:30PM -0000, phromo wrote:
> Understandable. If viewing my collection from the Calibre-superiority
> argument in the FAQ, I would wholeheartedly agree with you. And of
> course, you decide whether you want to fix it or not.
>
> But I disagree with you about dismissing this as a non-feature. It does
> supply things to the software:
>
> - Use of readonly network folders
>
> - In my experience, software come and go. Leaving the folder structure
> as-is makes interoperability between Calibre and other software easier
> (ie, why should everyone "do as Calibre")
>
> I'll have a go using the software with copying the books I need from my
> achive. If I really need this, I'll fork and submit a patch.
>
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> Title:
> Feature: Leave books in current location
>
> Status in calibre: e-book management:
> Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Calibre copies all added books to a central location and enforces a
> certain organization of that folder structure.
>
> I've collected ebooks for a long time, and have a reasonable (22
> gigabyte) sized collection, already organized to my liking and spread
> out over local drives and network drives.
>
> I'd love to be able to organize this collection using Calibre (seems
> like a great software!) however, the copying of added book to a
> central location is really limiting my usage for now.
>
> Thanks.
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Dr. Kovid Goyal
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http://calibre-ebook.com
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