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I have a Kobo and set up a Calibre Web server so it can pull books from the server instead of the Kobo store. It's fantastic. I got my SO one for Christmas and plan on doing the same for her.
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Assuming you have the means to set up a server, it's very easy and so convenient once it's set up
You don’t even really need to set up a server, I run calibre on my pc and just copy stuff over with a usb cable every now and again.
Calibre is really excellent software by the way. Kudos to the devs for it.
Yeah you don't have to, and I probably wouldn't bother setting up a home server just for this job, but if you install calibre web behind a reverse proxy then you can add books to it from anywhere, on any device, and your Kobo will periodically update without you lifting a finger. If you have a home server anyway, it's a no-brainer imo — such an easy ux once it's up and running
Yeah makes sense if that’s your use case. The way I use it, when I got it I loaded about 12gb of books on there, and have put about 6 new books on it since.
It’s over 1000 books, that’s quite the backlog for me to be working on! If I changed nothing that would do me until the end of my life - so I’ll only bother connecting again if there is some new book I wish to read urgently, which does happen, but not regularly. So given this is a task I only do a few times a year it doesn’t make sense to host.
Fair enough — I have a far shorter backlog than that! But I do really appreciate being able to download and add a book whenever a recommendation here catches my fancy, for example