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toddos · 12-17-2010, 08:27 PM

That's a lot of extra work. Calibre includes a web server with an opds feed. I want to be able to point right to that.

For comparison, here's how I download books in Stanza:

Open Stanza and go to "Get Books"
Assuming I'm on my home network (which is a valid assumption), Stanza finds my Calibre library automatically
I browse through the Calibre feed and download what I want

I don't have to sync my books to dropbox. I don't have to manually generate the OPDS files and structure. As long as I have the Calibre server running (and I always do), it's automatically available to me in Stanza. That's what I mean by bluefire missing the ability to read from the OPDS feed. There are plenty of other ways I can put books into Bluefire (sync from itunes, use the //nav/transfer URL and copy books through my PC's browser, jump through your hoops, etc), but none of them compare to the ease of use a built-in OPDS browser can provide. I'm even fine with not implementing UPnP discovery and making me have to type in my calibre server address, as long as the app remembers it so I don't have to type it in every time.

After the OPDS feed, Bluefire needs to add hyphenation (iBooks finally got that, though only on 4.2 for some ridiculous reason), more font choices, and more control over layout such as indentation depth, spacing between paragraphs, and line spacing in general, and the ability to merge publisher styles with selectively overridden formatting from the app itself (right now, I can either have my own font and colors or I can have the book's font and colors, but I can't have my own foreground/background and font settings while retaining the book's formatting styles for margins and such). Then it might finally supplant Stanza for me. I'm rooting for Bluefire to get to feature-parity with Stanza because BF is actively being developed and Stanza apparently is not (it gets updates maybe once or twice a year).

12-17-2010, 08:27 PM	#349
toddos Guru Posts: 695 Karma: 822675 Join Date: May 2010 Device: Kobo Aura, Nokia Lumia 920 (Freda)	That's a lot of extra work. Calibre includes a web server with an opds feed. I want to be able to point right to that. For comparison, here's how I download books in Stanza: Open Stanza and go to "Get Books" Assuming I'm on my home network (which is a valid assumption), Stanza finds my Calibre library automatically I browse through the Calibre feed and download what I want I don't have to sync my books to dropbox. I don't have to manually generate the OPDS files and structure. As long as I have the Calibre server running (and I always do), it's automatically available to me in Stanza. That's what I mean by bluefire missing the ability to read from the OPDS feed. There are plenty of other ways I can put books into Bluefire (sync from itunes, use the //nav/transfer URL and copy books through my PC's browser, jump through your hoops, etc), but none of them compare to the ease of use a built-in OPDS browser can provide. I'm even fine with not implementing UPnP discovery and making me have to type in my calibre server address, as long as the app remembers it so I don't have to type it in every time. After the OPDS feed, Bluefire needs to add hyphenation (iBooks finally got that, though only on 4.2 for some ridiculous reason), more font choices, and more control over layout such as indentation depth, spacing between paragraphs, and line spacing in general, and the ability to merge publisher styles with selectively overridden formatting from the app itself (right now, I can either have my own font and colors or I can have the book's font and colors, but I can't have my own foreground/background and font settings while retaining the book's formatting styles for margins and such). Then it might finally supplant Stanza for me. I'm rooting for Bluefire to get to feature-parity with Stanza because BF is actively being developed and Stanza apparently is not (it gets updates maybe once or twice a year).