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forkyfork · 03-02-2011, 05:56 PM

I was doing some research and found out that you can use Drobox to manage your Calibre library, which is perfect since I have multiple devices. Set that up.. and that worked fine.

Now, I'm in the process of trying to view my library and download my books on Stanza. I've got the "viewing" part down, but can't quite seem to get them to download.

In Calibre, I have my library uploaded to a public folder in dropbox. I used Calibre2OPDS to create a public catalogue. I got the URL of the public catalog (xml), put it into stanza, and can now see all of my books. The problem is.. I can't seem to do much with them. I can only view them and I can't download them to my device, which is what I want to do.

This feels like a really stupid setting that I must have missed somewhere. Or maybe a button I'm missing. But otherwise, I don't see the point of just being able to "see" my books and not download them to the device.

Can someone help? Thanks!

03-02-2011, 05:56 PM	#1
forkyfork Zealot Posts: 145 Karma: 1664 Join Date: May 2009 Device: It's a long story ;)	Trying to bridge Dropbox, Calibre, and Stanza I was doing some research and found out that you can use Drobox to manage your Calibre library, which is perfect since I have multiple devices. Set that up.. and that worked fine. Now, I'm in the process of trying to view my library and download my books on Stanza. I've got the "viewing" part down, but can't quite seem to get them to download. In Calibre, I have my library uploaded to a public folder in dropbox. I used Calibre2OPDS to create a public catalogue. I got the URL of the public catalog (xml), put it into stanza, and can now see all of my books. The problem is.. I can't seem to do much with them. I can only view them and I can't download them to my device, which is what I want to do. This feels like a really stupid setting that I must have missed somewhere. Or maybe a button I'm missing. But otherwise, I don't see the point of just being able to "see" my books and not download them to the device. Can someone help? Thanks!