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Originally Posted by gweminence
I don't really know the nuts and bolts of how it works. I just know that it's fire-and-forget. You set it up once, and then can forever just open it up and access your books.
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You're managing to confuse me more than explain. Are you talking about Calibre's content server or Kindle? I was talking about Calibre's content server, and I don't see how any app that remotely accesses Calibre's content server can be called "fire and forget". Don't you have to turn on the calibre server and configure your router to get to it remotely? If you manage that (which is far from fire and forget) then the step of actually going to the server is trivial. It's one click.
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I haven't tried a mobile browser or any other ereader app to compare, so I can't speak to them, other than to say that, for the mobile browser anyway, don't you have to enter the url and password every time?
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No, the URL and the password are easily stored in a bookmark. Or you can let any one of the free ereader apps store the URL and the password. I just click on my library link in any of my browsers, or in any of several ebook readers and they grab my books (and put them into the ereader index).
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If so, that right there makes it much more cumbersome than ACL.
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Since that's not needed, what else is there that the app offers? Is there any advantage to ACL that the multiple free browsers and multiple free ereaders don't give users? (BTW, I thought you were talking about Kindle apps and page syncing, so I'm more confused now that you're referring to "ACL", which I assume is the Calibre Library App) Is there some connection between ACL and the Kindle?)
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I could be wrong about that, so don't rake me over the coals, lol. Like I said, I haven't done it, but it seems that that's what you'd have to do?
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I'm not trying to rake you over the coals, but I truly am confused. As far as I can tell, the program you are referring to as ACL has nothing to do with Kindle, has nothing to do with page syncing and is nothing more than a Browser that points only to a Calibre Library that you have to configure yourself? Is that right?