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Originally Posted by Starson17
That really is an unfair comment, you know. It's not that Calibre won't let you access its copy. There may not be a local copy and Apple insists upon a local copy. The real problem is that Apple won't let you (or Calibre) put your ebook on an Apple controlled device using anything other than Apple controlled software.
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Put another way, and not counting the unsupported direct-to-device mechanism, putting stuff on an iDevice requires iTunes. From Calibre's point of view, iTunes IS the device, not the iPad or iPod.
When Calibre puts a book on a device, it ALWAYS creates a copy on the device, right? Kindles and Nooks don't link to your library copy, etc.
So really, the ability of iTunes to link to the library copy was something of a hack and an aberration, it was just a fairly convenient one for some of us.
Now Calibre is working more consistently, but that new consistency is highlighting one of the issues with trying to use Apple's model outside it's walled garden.
For me, I really only need my wife to choose whether the one extra step of deleting the iTunes copy is acceptable to her, or if I switch her to using Calibre's content server to get books onto her iPod.
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