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myudkowsky · 11-21-2011, 09:53 PM

Oddly enough, a search for my current problem brought me back here.

1. Just for the record, I thought I'd try to use Calibre to create a local folder, and then sync or copy that folder over to the tablet computer.

This fails with the MTP file system -none of the epubs show up. I suspect, from cryptic comments in the file system man page, that the epub file extension is not recognized during copy and therefore never appears correctly on the MTP device. PNG files do appear as expected, by way of contrast.

2. My thanks to everyone for responding -- I also thought about the MTP library, given that more and more tablets use MTP, but I too don't have time for it at the moment.

I guess I'll need to Dropbox, set up a local server, etc, or possibly just use old-fashioned "sneakernet" in the meantime.

11-21-2011, 09:53 PM	#6
myudkowsky Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Andoid	Oddly enough, a search for my current problem brought me back here. 1. Just for the record, I thought I'd try to use Calibre to create a local folder, and then sync or copy that folder over to the tablet computer. This fails with the MTP file system -none of the epubs show up. I suspect, from cryptic comments in the file system man page, that the epub file extension is not recognized during copy and therefore never appears correctly on the MTP device. PNG files do appear as expected, by way of contrast. 2. My thanks to everyone for responding -- I also thought about the MTP library, given that more and more tablets use MTP, but I too don't have time for it at the moment. I guess I'll need to Dropbox, set up a local server, etc, or possibly just use old-fashioned "sneakernet" in the meantime.