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Originally Posted by toddos
The only thing missing is the ability to read from your local Calibre installation's OPDS feed. Boo!  |
Maybe I am missing something, but I can download and read books from my Calibre library...
- I have my library on Dropbox (in the public folder per instructions somewhere around here...)
- I run Calibre2OPDS to create a catalog (I set the catalog for compatibility level = Stanza)
- Once the catalog gets updated to my Dropbox (takes a while...), I go to Dropbox>Public>Calibre>_catalog. Within that catalog folder is a file called "catalog.html."
I open that file so I can get the actual link address. I put that link into Safari on my iPad and browse away through the catalog of my books. Once I find one I want, I select "Download this book in epub" (at the bottom of the book description page.
Safari opens to a new page where I have two download buttons: (1) Open in... (2) Open in "Bluefire Reader".
When I select "Open In..." - by holding the button until a selection grid opens - I can open the epub in Bluefire reader, iBooks, Stanza, BAM Reader, Kobo, Borders, Goodreader and iCabMobile. They open fine.
Well, except iCabMobile and Goodreader ... they download the book, but since neither can read epub, they don't open the book. The others do, however. Though, I bet Goodreader would open a PDF just fine (I have mostly epub books, however).
Huh. This is interesting. As I said before, I get two buttons. The first button, "Open With..." is always there. But, the second button changes to open with whichever ereader app you last used. Very strange - but that second button is a default, I guess. Who knew?
This is a long, rambling post with really no purpose other than to say, I can get a boat-load of books on my iPad now!
There's the little bookmarklet where you can download library books directly to Bluefire from within Safari and now this. Cool!
So, did you guys work this magic with Bluefire, or is this an update for Safari ... or did it work before and never knew it?
Regardless, it's pretty neat!