I find this a greate plugin as it allows me to queue books as I add them and decide they are of interest without having to wait until I connect a reader device.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
IThat's a pretty painful limitation. However it might be the only "option" a user could have for a while until/unless Calibre is changed. If people think it is still worth the effort despite the serious limitation above I'll add it to the plugin.
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Has the idea of having multiple sync lists progressed at all? I recently got a Sony PRS-950 to add to my iPad for reading and it would be nice to select which items went to which device in a relatively painless way.
I understand your isssue with which is the current list. However I had some thought on some possible ways forward - not sure if they are technically possible:
- Always starting with NO active list. However, this would assume that the plugin could get in and de-activate any list that was active (if any) at the time that Calibre closed down before it automatically sent news.
- When adding a new book, one could choose which list from those managed by the plugin. If necessary a pop-up could ask which list to use.
- An option to promote a particular list to 'active' state so that Calibre will try and send it at the next sync. However I would have thought the normal use case would be that the user was interested in an immediate sync.
- Ideally it would be nice to force Calibre to see if a device is connected so it can send news immediately. In effect a 'sync now' option for the current sync list. Can a plugin detect if a device is connected - if so it might be possible to make use of that in some way to indicate to the user what device would be synced?
Anyway, those are my (rather random) thoughts for now - do they make any sense, and do they have any chance of technically working.
It will be nice if/when Calibre eventually becomes device aware but these were some ideas on an interim possibility.