[rayuki]

Originally Posted by theducks

Any web page (EPUB,PDF...) you see is Downloaded (or you would not see it )
If you have bandwidth: you could run VNC on your (GUI) Host and
run http://www.realvnc.com/products/android/1.1/userguide/ VNC terminal on your honycomb device.
Calibre viewer (or any other program) would be running on the 'server'

I understand that and i actually do have VNC running, i dont think you understand my point so i'll do my best to explain what i had envisioned.

I basically have limited storage on a portable device, and with something like 50gbs of calibre library books I was just saying I would love it if there was some way to "stream" from the Calibre Content Server to a device.

now what i was thinking is something along the lines of how conventional video content is streamed but with books. probally not possible but next best thing would be a way to "open" the file on the host computer but "view" it on the device, so it doesn't ever get stored on the device.

obviously a TEMP file would have to be created on the device, but once you have finished with the book it deletes off the system.

hope that makes sense.

Originally Posted by itimpi

The point is that ePub is not a serial format, so it is not really amenable to 'streaming'.

The only way I could see it working is if there was some sort of server side process that could convert the book to HTML and then deliver up the HTML pages on demand. However this is not something I have seen any references to anyone developing such a capability.

That would be just as good, since calibre leaves itself open for such ease of use in terms of converting there would be no problem in converting or even having multiple formats of the same book in my library. Perhaps something could be developed in an app that views the HTML file from a Ebook reader app straight from the content server.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Actually, that is on the TODO list, using monocle for an in browser ebook reader.

awesome thats great to hear! this will be the next best thing to what i was envisioning.