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Originally Posted by Xenophon
For me, the big deal with the nook is having convenient access to my entire library, all on the device at the same time. Doing this requires soft-rooting the nook, and using three pieces of software: two on your computer (Calibre, calibre2opds) and one on your nook (trook).
- Use Calibre to organize your eBooks. Specifically, get the authors, titles, and series set up correctly.
- Use calibre2opds to produce a catalog of your books and then copy both catalog and books to the add-on memory card on your nook.
- Use trook to browse your newly created catalog on the nook.
The key things here are that calibre2opds produces an opds-formatted catalog of the books (by reading the Calibre data), and that trook knows how to read, display and navigate that catalog.
You can drill into your library: - by series
- by author
- by title
- by date added
- by tag
(and maybe more). In each case, trook displays a reasonable set of choices for drilling in farther: ( e.g. "Series starting with 1", "Series starting with "A", "Series starting with "B", etc.).
This combination supports something that is not currently possible with the built-in software of any stand-alone ebook reading device -- fast and convenient access to any book in a multi-thousand volume library!
Xenophon |
Um, okay. Cool.
But. Why would the vast majority of people ever want to do that?