Put your Calibre eBooks on iPhone, wherever you are

When you're traveling and want to read that specific eBook which you forgot to put on your iPhone or iPad before you started the trip, then you need the following solution: CrashPlan or Dropbox!


I store all my eBooks in Calibre and Calibre stores them in /Users/<you>/Library/Application Support/Calibre/ and that folder is backed up too with CrashPlan. That is step 1.

With CrashPlan, you can (and should) backup all your data, music and movies automatically on unlimited cloud-storage so your data is backed up outside of your home or work environment. And thus also your eBooks! That is step 2.

And the guys at CrashPlan created an very nice iOS app with which you can access your backup on their cloud-storage from anywhere ... and download files from there onto your iPhone or iPad! And thus also your eBooks! That is step 3.

To illustrate what I mean, I put together an image sequence to illustrates the steps to take to download an eBook from your own backup onto your iPhone or iPad.

Very cool and very handy!

I use this method also when I want to email any file which I have on my desktop at home - I download it from CrashPlan and then email it ... from my iPhone. No need to setup remote login to my iMac, no need to setup screen sharing, etc..

Of course there are other ways, but since this one is completely automatic and also backs up ALL our data, it is my preferred off-site storage solution.


Step 1: Calibre





Step 2: CrashPlan desktop





Step 3: CrashPlan on iPhone

iOS Home Screen Backgrounds

I created my first series of iOS Home Screen backgrounds and you can see and download them from this page.

De Saint 0171 - De Saint eist vergelding

De volgende gedigitaliseerde Saint: De Saint eist vergelding

Veel leesplezier!

Download het boek vanaf mijn Dropbox account. Dit is een voor iedereen toegankelijke map.

Put documents on your Mac in iCloud for GoodReader

If you want to store documents from your Mac in iCloud for, say GoodReader, there is an easy way to do this!

First step to take is to store a document in iCloud from within GoodReader.
Next step is to setup your Mac to use iCloud. You might need Mac OS X Lion for this to work.
The last step is to open the Library folder inside your Home folder. By default, this folder is hidden in Mac OS X Lion, but you can open it or make it permanently visible by using one of these methods.

Inside ~/Library you'll find a folder named Mobile Documents.
If all has been setup well, GoodReader's iCloud folder should be visible there. Inside that folder is a Documents folder. Simply drag a document into that folder and it is auto-synced into iCloud. You are then able to see the document in GoodReader's iCloud folder and download it from there onto your iOS device.



I have made an alias in my Finder window's sidebar to the Mobile Documents folder, so I have quick access to it.

De Saint 0419 - Kris-kras de Saint

En weer een gedigitaliseerde Saint: Kris-Kras de Saint.

Veel leesplezier!

Download het boek vanaf mijn Dropbox account. Dit is een voor iedereen toegankelijke map.

Kleine Science Fiction Omnibus 2

En nog maar eens een science-fiction pocket. Nu een verzamelbundel van korte verhalen. Erg leuk om te lezen.

Veel leesplezier!

Download het boek vanaf mijn Dropbox account. Dit is een voor iedereen toegankelijke map.