The moral of the story is: don't worry, it's safe. Plus other plugins I either don't use or don't have the patience to enumerate,Īnd I'm pretty sure they could ALWAYS do that.
#HOW TO COPY CALIBRE LIBRARY TO PORTABLE PLUS#
Goodreads sync has info about your account in the json, and adds identifier metadata to the db,Īnnotations saves stuff as a comment in a custom column plus json stuff, Overdrive Link has manage found books, which is just a list of titles and overdrive weblinks, I am not aware that any plugin tries to mess this up - they either store their config in %APPDATA%\calibre\plugins\mypluginconfig.json or else as specific types of info associated with a book. The databases on the other hand were built from the ground up to be movable and not dependant on a specific location in the filesystem. In any event, the important thing is to avoid using hard-coded paths when you move the calibre config data. It will run the Welcome Wizard asking you for the location of the. Now on the new computer, start calibre for the first time.
#HOW TO COPY CALIBRE LIBRARY TO PORTABLE PORTABLE#
Download calibre Portable Version: 6.5. To launch calibre, double click the 'calibre-portable.exe' program inside the Calibre Portable folder. The very first item is the path to the library folder. To use, just run the portable installer and select the location where you would like the Calibre Portable folder. For this recipe, we are using a copy of Silvio Lorussos Entreprecariat, which is licensed. You can also add books that are not natively supported by the device as you’d be working with the Calibre library rather than the device. There is an ‘Add books’ on the to right, clicking on which will open the explorer, from where you can add books to your Calibre library. In the portable Calibre are more libraries and I can use some, but not all. Create portable libraries by embedding metadata in Calibre. Adding a book to your Kindle is easy if you’ve saved it on your PC. You can find out what the library folder is by clicking the calibre icon in the toolbar. If the files dont actually get copied but are somehow linked to iBooks. #4 eschwartz 11-04-2013, 01:30 AMI know for instance the Overdrive Link plugin saves the "manage discovered books" list in the db, but that is a per-library setting and makes sense that it should be there, not in calibre config. Simply copy the calibre library folder from the old to the new computer.