09-20-2012, 10:08 AM | #1 |
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[android app] Calibre Companion & Moon+ on Nexus7
I love my new Nexus7, Moon+ Reader Pro, and (most of all) Calibre Companion.
Got the Nexus7 yesterday, my first Android device and first small tablet. After charging the battery, it took about 90 minutes to do all this:
All that setup incredibly/fantastically fast and smooth, without any problems, so off and running -- -- up to this stumbling point, removing books from the Nexus7. Moon+ creates 2 .png's per book when it opens a book, and stores the .png's in an invisible folder Books/.Moonreader. When books on the Nexus7 are removed by calibre, or by CC, or by Moon+ (I successively tested each of those Removes with different books) the .png's remain behind in that invisible folder. And accumulate there. Does anyone know a way to automatically solve this problem? It's a minor problem, fixable with the manual workaround of periodically bulk deleting all the old .pngs in .Moonreader folder. But still a bit annoying because the way I operate the books on the device are there temporarily, read then removed, so there is a lot of turnover of books on the device. Those .png's will accumulate fast. Am I missing some relevant setting(s) in calibre, CC, or Moon+ that could solve this minor problem? It's early days, but I hope to use CC, Moon+, and Nexus7 as my main setup for reading nearly everything (edit: along with calibre as main library hub) , assuming that charging the battery daily isn't too much hassle. I'd been using EPUB all along as my preferred format and "master copy" (except for some PDFs) in calibre. So for me this means no more need for automatic EPUB to MOBI conversions in calibre-send to Kindle3 or KindleT, no more: No more need for Kindles. No more need to read complex PDFs on iPad, which I often avoided because iPad was too big, heavy, and glary for long-duration reading. No need for iPad at all, except possibly for larger display of some graphics oriented books such as comic books or art books, which I haven't tested yet on the Nexus7. Any clues for solving The Case of the Accumulating png Files? Last edited by unboggling; 09-20-2012 at 11:34 AM. Reason: clarify |
09-20-2012, 10:33 AM | #2 |
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Once the MTP drivers are stable, it should be possible to add support for deleting sidecar files like those pngs, when you use calibre to delete files via MTP, provided they have a well defined naming system.
Ping me a few weeks down the road, and I'll look into it. Though really, Moon+ should delete its sidecar files when you delete a book from its interface. |
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Edit: Yeah, Moon+ pngs are well defined. If filename is Joe Abercrombie - The First Law 02 - Before They Are Hanged.epub, the associated .png files are the same except for appended (no space) _1.png or _2.png as in: Joe Abercrombie - The First Law 02 - Before They Are Hanged.epub_1.png Joe Abercrombie - The First Law 02 - Before They Are Hanged.epub_2.png Last edited by unboggling; 09-20-2012 at 11:16 AM. |
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09-20-2012, 11:27 AM | #4 |
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@unboggling: There is no setting in CC that will clean up after a reader program.
They appear to be cover images, which it probably uses to accelerate drawing its bookshelf view, Kovid is right -- Moon+ should delete these files itself, but it doesn't. I will look at adding some kind of consistency checker that is app-based, but it will probably need to wait until we have a more rational preferences setup. BTW: Moon+ survives deleting the entire directory. It recreates it when it needs it, adding the covers at that time. That is a fast way to clean up after it. |
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Edit: Learned how to copy and delete on Android end. Deleted .Moonreader dir. Restarted Nexus7. Transferred some PDFs from calibre to CC and opened them in Moon+. Moon+ recreated the debug.txt which is just some version & build info, and also recreated the dir pdf-fonts and its contents. So deleting the entire .Moonreader dir works well. Thanks for mentioning that. Last edited by unboggling; 09-20-2012 at 12:57 PM. |
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09-20-2012, 12:24 PM | #6 |
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Ah OS X, then no. It may be that someday OS X gets decent MTP support, someone would need to fix the libusb port to OS X for that. libusb currently tries to wake up suspended devices, which causes hangs on some OS X machines. That means it cannot be used in calibre until the hanging is fixed.
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Edit. Dec 2007 MTP 1.0, I just looked at the spec. That's not so new…. I'll look into setting up a Linux partition, been meaning to do that anyway. What Linux flavor do Linuxphiles recommend? Or is the answer to that, a different flavor for each particular Linux addict? Or is the libusb problem related to a hardware implementation of USB ports on certain Macs, in which case MTP wouldn't work from Linux partition on those Macs either? Last edited by unboggling; 09-20-2012 at 01:37 PM. |
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09-26-2012, 10:59 AM | #8 |
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Hi Unboggling,
I have a question about Moon reader. When reading PDF files, is there a way to double click on a paragraph of text and get it to zoom to fit that paragraph to the screen? Mantano does that, and I use the feature a lot when reading PDF magazines on my phone. Its a lot easier than having to pinch zoom and get the zoom level right manually. I like what I see with Moon+ reading mobi files, which Mantano doesnt support, so would be ideal to move to Moon+ for me. Cheers, EF |
09-26-2012, 11:11 AM | #9 |
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AFAIK: nope. But I'm new to Moon+ Reader Pro (the paid version that can read PDFs), so maybe I missed an obscure setting. (pinch zoom works.)
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09-27-2012, 12:16 AM | #10 |
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Use Mantano for PDFs and Moon+ for Mobi. Calibre Companion will allow you to put those files automatically into different folders or leave them in any one folder you want and associate PDFs so they are opened by Montano and Mobis so the are opened by Moon+. Then use Calibre Companion to select and open the books.
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How do you get the books to just pop up on the "My Shelf" after the CC push from Calibre? Thanks! |
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In CC just do a long press on any book and you can avoid the Metadata Book Jacket altogether. Just place your finger on your book of choice and leave it there until Moon+Reader starts to open or the dialog to select a reader pops up. I have the dialog set to always bring up Moon+Reader for ePubs, so I never see the pop up dialog anymore. I never import books into Moon+Reader anymore. I'm with theducks on this point. |
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