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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
I've messed with I2Reader, and it can connect to the Calibre content server, but only download one book at a time that I could figure out.
I had a few thousands of books on Stanza, and could download a couple hundred books at a time in batches of 50. (mark the page to download, get get another page, mark the page to download....)
I'm really frustrated with loading books one at a time through Calibre or the web sites. People have whole libraries they want to carry around, who has time to piddle with one book at a time?
I've tried loading I2Reader through itunes, and it loads more books, but then I get the error that it can't save the file library because it's out of memory. Which I figure is an iTunes problem. So sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I haven't been able to find what size triggers the memory problem.
So I've lost all my sorting abilities for my library, my bulk loading, and my font size and color choices when I lost Stanza. None of the others seems to even come close any more.
Bummed out, because I don't trust Dropbox or any of the cloud services to store my stuff. I just don't see it as dependable in the long run. I paid for all that extra gig on my devices, and I want to use it!
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Hi DuskyRose - I sympathise with your frustration, but I have a small 'solution' which you may find useful.
I found today, that after dragging and droopping a book onto i2Reader in the apps sectiion of iTunes, subsequent books did not sync to i2Reader - similar to your problem although I did not get the out of memory error. On a whim, I left iTunes open, but unplugged the USB cable, and then reconnected. Immediately i2Reader imported all the books that had been sitting in iTunes (and not synced).
Hope this helps.
A suggestion. I have set up Calibre2OPDS (on DropBox) and use the Catalogue to decide which book to read next - it can display books by series, or Author and in other useful ways - and of course shows the book's summary as well.
I share your reservations about putting personal stuff in the 'cloud', but have decided to take a chance. This may alleviate the lack of sorting that you miss friom Stanza....