Practical way to use iPhoto on both desktop and laptop?

I have my iPhoto library on the internal hard drive of my iMac desktop machine. I also have a Mac laptop, and occasionally when I take this away I like to take a copy of the current iPhoto library so I can show photos on the laptop.
I've never found a way to do this easily, and generally copy over the entire iPhoto Library from the desktop to the laptop - a long and tedious job.
Recently when I tried to do this, I got a message telling me this was not possible because "some data in 'iPhoto Library' can't be read or written". I tried exporting and importing the photos, which caused massive headaches.
My current plan is to get a large-ish flash drive, maybe 16 or 32gig (my Library is about 11 gig at present), and simply move the library to there when I want to take it with me.
Or am I overlooking a more obvious method?

There's an application, iPhotoSync
that can keep both of your libraries identical as far a which photos are in them.
Here's how it works:
1 - it compares the databases and/or album.xml files of Libraries A and B. 
2 - the files in A that are not in B are imported into B by copying the original files from A into B's Import folder.  
3 - it then does the same for B.
4 - metadata is not copied.
5 - it can be password protected to prevent unauthorized use.
It can be used to just copy from A to B and not sync both ways if desired.
It will not copy keywords, albums or other keepsakes. Just photos.
If you need to include the metadata then you will need to purchase and use iPhoto Library Manager. However, you will have to manually select the events or albums to copy from one library to the other.
OT

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