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Old 05-15-2008, 03:44 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I see what you're saying, yes. I was sort of assuming (perhaps wrongly) that it would work a little like the Mobi Desktop Reader which does "smart things" with a portable Mobi device plugged in via USB. You can set it up, for example, to automatically sync new content to the attached device. That requires it to specifically recognise the device that's connected as being another Mobi device, rather than merely an external USB file system.
Yeah, you can actually setup calibre to do that as well (though only from the command line at the moment). Basically you can recognize when a SONY reader is plugged in because although it is mounted as a disk drive in the OS, the OS also has the vendor and product id information of the device available to it. USB devices always make this information available to the host OS.
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