Synchronise Kobo & Workstation

Synchronise books between a workstation and a Kobo e-book reader. In practice, this means synchronising a connected Kobo volume with EPUB and PDF files in the specified local documents directories.

The defaults are Linux-specific, assuming a udisks2-style automount directory such as /var/media/user/KOBOeReader for the destination Kobo and defaulting to just ~/Documents for the source. However, if these defaults are overridden with explicit values, it will likely work on other OSes too.

$ cd sync-kobo-and-workstation
$ cargo build --release
$ # Now, move the built executable at `target/release/sync-kobo-and-workstation`
$ # wherever you like and run it like so:
$ sync-kobo-and-workstation --documents-directories="$HOME/Documents"
Book ./tmp/Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming.epub already exists on the destination; will not copy across
Book ./tmp/debian-handbook.epub already exists on the destination; will not copy across

Found documents in documents directory at /var/home/user/Documents: 2
Books not copied because they already exist on the destination Kobo: 2
Book copied: 0

Symlinks inside the documents directories are not followed.

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