MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Calibre trying to fetching news when I'm not online

PaulSmi · 03-03-2010, 08:39 AM

I liked to have Calibre open ALL the time as I have it do lots of things through the day. And if I quit, I'd worry about forgetting to reload it.

I'm surprised that for an app that has so many AMAZING features and is such a technical work of art it can't do something as basic as just checking there's an Internet connection before it starts trying to fetch news. I thought that would have been a real simple test. Heck, even if it just pinged a server to check before getting going, that would work wouldn't it.

Please, please, please add it in as soon as you can is it is soooo frustrating if you're on a laptop that's not always connected.

I've donated before, but I'll gladly donate again if you can get this one thing in :-)

03-03-2010, 08:39 AM	#3
PaulSmi Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: Kindle	I liked to have Calibre open ALL the time as I have it do lots of things through the day. And if I quit, I'd worry about forgetting to reload it. I'm surprised that for an app that has so many AMAZING features and is such a technical work of art it can't do something as basic as just checking there's an Internet connection before it starts trying to fetch news. I thought that would have been a real simple test. Heck, even if it just pinged a server to check before getting going, that would work wouldn't it. Please, please, please add it in as soon as you can is it is soooo frustrating if you're on a laptop that's not always connected. I've donated before, but I'll gladly donate again if you can get this one thing in :-)