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Originally Posted by toddos
...[snip a bit for this part only]...Calibre includes a web server with an opds feed. I want to be able to point right to that. ... [snip some more to quote this:] ...[*]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
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Toddos - I totally get what you mean. It is more convenient to have Calibre as a server. However, doesn't that mean you have to be connected on your
home network to get to your books via this method?
I'm not saying that it won't be handy to have BlueFire have direct access to the Calibre server, but when I have my books in the "cloud" (in my case, Dropbox) and I run Calibre2OPDS to make the catalog - it means I can access my library from wherever I am, so long as I have Internet access. This also means via 3G - if the iPad has it.
Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, time wise, to
initially transfer the entire Calibre library to Dropbox. But, it's only once.
And, it's a bit of a pain to upload the catalog to Dropbox (I have 2000+ books and it takes about ... 15-ish minutes). But, once it's done, it's done. You can update the catalog whenever you want, but the old one stays accessible from within Dropbox. Oh, and Safari can be bookmarked to save that catalog's web address. Which stays the same even if/when you update or change that catalog.
The catalog itself takes hardly any time to create (you use a GUI format to set some defaults ... from then on it's a simple "click") and when I add books to Calibre, it's very quick to update in Dropbox.
So, yeah, there's a few steps in there, most of them at the very beginning (and done once). But, now I can access my books from wherever I am (heck, I can use someone else's computer, so long as I have the catalog's web address). And finding out I can download from within Safari onto my iPad, within the app of my choice? - kewl!
I'm just amazed that technology has gotten to this point, is all I'm saying.