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• AdminAdam Engst (Minor Functionary, Bookle) commented  ·  April 30, 2012 7:24 a.m.  ·  Delete

  It's conceivable a symbolic link would enable two Macs on the same network to share a library (you can play with this yourself), but I think many people would like any syncing to take place over the Internet so the machines don't have to be on the same network.

• Eelco Deuling commented  ·  April 30, 2012 2:31 a.m.  ·  Delete

  Would a symbolic link help? …I have not tried this with Bookle, but a majority of my apps are synced this way through Dropbox.

• AdminAdam Engst (Minor Functionary, Bookle) commented  ·  February 11, 2012 7:34 a.m.  ·  Delete

  The problem with using Dropbox is Apple's sandboxing regulations. We're trying to figure out if there's any way around them.

• Alastair Campbell commented  ·  February 10, 2012 10:59 a.m.  ·  Delete

  How about syncing via dropbox? I keep most of my epub books in dropbox anyway, if you added a 'sync' file of some kind to keep track of where each one is upto, that would be excellent.

• AdminAdam Engst (Minor Functionary, Bookle) commented  ·  February 10, 2012 8:15 a.m.  ·  Delete

  That's an interesting thought - have to work through the logic of what would become possible with such a helper app. Oh the contortions Apple puts us through! :-)

• Ian commented  ·  February 9, 2012 10:45 a.m.  ·  Delete

  One thing to check here could be having a second 'helper app' that's not available from the Mac App Store, but can be downloaded from your website.

  This is what Growl does - the main sandbox-friendly Growl app is in the MAS, and the secondary app that replaces old Growl versions in existing apps is a download from their site.

• Stanley Schwartz commented  ·  February 7, 2012 4:05 p.m.  ·  Delete

  even syncing bookmarks would be a big plus

• AdminAdam Engst (Minor Functionary, Bookle) commented  ·  February 5, 2012 5:00 p.m.  ·  Delete

  Oh, we definitely want to do this, and we're so bummed about Apple's sandboxing requirements for the Mac App Store. If it weren't for those, we would have added an option that would have allowed Bookle to store its library in your Dropbox folder, so everything could have have been synced between multiple Macs (and your iOS devices!) with no fuss.

  If sandboxing prevents the use of Dropbox in this fashion, we may be able to add iCloud support, but since so few apps have done that, it's a big unknown right now.