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I guess I'm not being clear, I'm trying to simplify several issues with this idea and munging them together. I'll also admit to not having used the 'get books' feature much, I just used it to refresh my memory and realized it doesn't quite work as I recall the last time I touched it.
Part of the problem is the metadata in the book files vs what's in the Calibre DB. If you just download a book from the PHP server today, you don't get the metadata that's in my library, you get whatever crap metadata was in the book originally. There isn't currently any easy way to update the internal metadata for books without using save-to-disk, and that workaround only works for a few formats anyway. A bundled zip file with OPF, cover, etc, as well as a plugin to import that filetype would solve this regardless of the store connection.
My last impression of the Get Books feature was that it did act as a sort of web browser, so a special browser-like plugin wouldn't be required. Now that I've used it again and see that it's more a search aggregator I can see the reluctance on your part, I'm less enthused about that aspect of the discussion. If a user restricted Get Books to a single server it could potentially be useful, but overall the interface doesn't lend itself to working that way.
Looks like the simpler thing to do would be to figure out why Calbre isn't automatically opening/importing filetypes associated with it and leave things as is with the browser. I'll open a bug on this point.
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