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by StevePerkins 3287 days ago
Hell... yes. That would be a holy grail for me.

I store everything in Calibre. When I buy an eBook from Amazon, the first thing I do is strip the DRM. Because even though I'm basically happy with my Kindle library, I don't want to lose all my stuff if they change their policies to something I'm not happy with in the future.

So I'm doing most of my library management from a PC, but doing most of my reading from a Kindle Fire. There's no great solution for this, so I've just been taking the books that I'm actively reading and copying them into Dropbox.

This is an interesting project, and I'm sure I'll try it out. But I'm skeptical of using a browser-based book reader on my Kindle. Say what you want about Amazon, their native reading app is still the best I've ever seen by far. Meanwhile, even Amazon's own web-based reader is crap.

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[Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) is the perfect tool for the job. Set Calibre's directory on your PC as the main folder, and it'll propagate changes wherever you want.