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07-25-2012, 08:24 AM | #16 |
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The app requires a local network connection from the smart device (your nexus 7) to the computer running calibre. Our assumption is that people will normally use wifi because this is the easiest to set up. Bluetooth PANs should also work, although I have never set one up on an android phone.
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07-25-2012, 11:59 AM | #17 |
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Looking forward to this and happy to beta test as well between iMac, Air, SIII and Galaxy Tab 7.7.
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07-25-2012, 12:48 PM | #18 |
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I have an Entourage Edge (EE) with the last 'unofficial' release (2.2).
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07-26-2012, 08:52 AM | #21 | |
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http://calibre2opds.com/2012/04/30/d...re2opds-users/ I don't have any pirated books in my Calibre library but I do have books that have been stripped of DRM so I can use them on different devices. If you have any more info on this, could you pass it along? Thanks. |
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07-26-2012, 11:31 AM | #22 | |
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If you are going to be paranoid, then you should not have copyrighted books ANYWHERE in your DropBox folders - not just the public ones. If you carefully read the Dropbox tems of service the limitation is not just to your Public folder. However if you do not give out your URL for your public folder then it is unlikely that anyone will care. Calibre2opds also has an option to 'obfusticate' file names for the catalog files so that it would be much harder to 'guess' them. This means even if someone guessed the base URL for your Public folder they would find it difficult to find the catalog files. |
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07-26-2012, 11:53 AM | #23 | |
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1) Device only is fine for me. 2) Yes. My operating mode was to take my Kindle, and now my Nexus 7 with me while traveling (frequently...) so I use Calibre on both my home and my corporate laptop. While traveling, I am occassionally connected to public networks, but more commonly to hotel networks, which I consider only marginally safer than public networks. 3) Yes, as noted in answer 2. Many thanks for your efforts on this! |
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07-26-2012, 02:54 PM | #24 |
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Thanks to all of you who have responded. We very much appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
We are making excellent progress. Our app reliably connects on demand, can add and delete books, and can invoke reader apps. We are now working on UI details, book/folder routing features, etc; and on error handling. What a joy error handing is in networked environments where the connection can disappear at any inconvenient moment. Regarding laptops and security: we decided to do two things: 1) The calibre smart device driver can be easily started and stopped without going to calibre's device plugin customization. There is now a line in calibre's connect/share menu to do this. Reason: to ensure that no user has the smart device driver running without explicitly enabling it. For this reason the driver ships in the "off" state. It must be turned on, something that is easy to do. When the app fails to find calibre, it will give instructions for how to turn on the calibre driver. 2) If the app finds more than one connection-enabled calibre library (e.g., in an airport), it asks the user which one to use, displaying the name of the computers accepting connections. Some more info related to security:
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07-26-2012, 03:24 PM | #25 |
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When I got my Android Tablet I thought Calibre already worked on it Boy was I wrong! IF You get thei working & it works for my Coby [2.3 OS] I be a Happy Tablet owner! Good-bye PC!
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07-27-2012, 07:06 AM | #26 |
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thank you, i am VERY excited about this...as a user with an 800+ title Calibre library, i was very disappointed when i realised calibre cannot connect to MTP devices
i have some thoughts, if i may? -paid apps often have greater success when they also have a free counterpart...if you can figure out a way to disable some functionality for a free version and get people using the app, you may find that more will upgrade to the full version...it would also bode well if your app shows 50,000+ free installs as opposed to only 150 paid installs -metadata - when syncing calibre to a proper ereader (like a Sony) any changes made in calibre after the book was added would also be updated and synced...currently, with no syncing capability for MTP devices, books with changes need to be converted over themselves (i.e. epub to epub) so any metadata changes are saved and visible on the android device...is this something your app may be able to address? -Aldiko - you mentioned aldiko...though of course it is a very popular android reader app, i would be surprised if many who use calibre would prefer aldiko...when i last tested it, upon importing my books into aldiko it messed up ALL my tags and added a lot of superfluous crap...anyway, that's just an observation and quite off topic your questions ...Question 1: would you prefer that we released ASAP... ASAP, always asap content server functionality would be a great added bonus, but this is already achievable via other means*, whereas syncing is not (*i currently have a no-ip setup and access my library via a standard http address, or via my ereader app as a 'net library' - that's just one example) ...Question 2: connects to public wifi ... no ...Question 3: more than one computer running calibre... no |
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FYI until there is another solution you can use the Modify ePub plugin to update the metadata in a book, a full conversion is no longer the only method to embed the metadata. |
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07-27-2012, 09:17 AM | #28 |
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1) There aren't very many places where functionality can be limited and still be useful. That leads to the problem that if the base (free) functionality isn't reasonably complete, we will get zillions of 1-star reviews complaining about it. These reviews will do much more harm than not having a limited-function free version. 2) Having a free version that *does* have enough functionality to avoid the negative reviews will turn the paid version into donate-ware. That is not a place we want to be. My son, who is developing the android half of this system, makes his living doing android programming. At this point he can't afford to give away his time. 3) This isn't an app that someone will drive by, see, and try. A person who tries it has a specific problem for which this app is a solution, and there is a good chance that the user will know in advance from the description whether it solves the problem. Furthermore, the app is easy to test within the refund period, which provides a 'sort-of' try before you buy. Quote:
Aldiko has a database that is reasonably simple, which is why it was mentioned as a possibility. We don't know yet what other possibilities we might have. I have spent a little time looking at FBReader's files and haven't yet found anything that would allow us to update a book's metadata apart from updating the book. Dwanthy's point about modify-epub is a good one. In addition, calibre automatically updates metadata to the extent that it can when a book is sent to the device. For epubs, normally calibre can do a lot, especially when combined with plugboards. Unfortunately neither of these choices permit updating metadata without resending the book, but we can't do anything about that unless we can modify the information that reader app keeps. Edit: our app will get updated metadata from calibre, which will be used by the app whenever it displays anything. To the extent that our app can serve as a 'director' for a user in place of a reader app, then the user will get many of the benefits of updated metadata. For this to work well, our app would need a good search interface, something that probably won't be in the first release. We would need a "collections" capability, which we haven't yet considered doing. I don't think our app will ever support eye candy like 'wooden bookshelves', and that might be a showstopper for some people. Finally, we will never be able to tie into a book purchase ecosystem such as Amazon's or B&N's. Last edited by chaley; 07-27-2012 at 10:52 AM. |
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07-27-2012, 09:59 AM | #30 | |
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Comments embedded below and still can't wait to buy this.
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