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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
First, I believe what you're wanting is an OPDS client and not ODS. Second, the EPUBReader add-on for Firefox does support OPDS catalog feeds. Useful if you just want to read books on your PC/laptop. If you actually need to copy the books to calibre for sending to device, etc, not so much.
I believe it's been mentioned before that there are plans to include server/client set-up for calibre but I wouldn't expect to see that anytime soon.
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Yes I think that's what I'm going over - and it seems that is the last step for Calibre to be feature complete. I don't use Firefox (over the last year I have become a Chrome person). I'm well aware there are readers that can act as a client - as I mentioned i do use Stanza. But from what I gather from the ethos of Calibre is that is about choice and freedom. Saying I need to use another software package to utilize a function within Calibre seems against that.
Calibre gives you the freedom to read books in whatever format you like. If you don't like a format you can change it to a different one. If you don't like the metadate from one source you can choose a different one. If you don't like standard RSS readers you can change them into a ebook and use them however you would like. If you want to transfer books to your device you can use a multiple of methods including email, mounted drive, or direct device interfacing. If you don't want to use a separate ereader you can use the built in ereader.
From my perspective having the software only act as a server and not as a client is just about the only function where you need a third party software either in the form of a web browser or reader that can attach to an ODS server. So for that function choice is taken away from me. It also makes taking what I want with me where a pain.
In our household there is a server, 2 windows desktops, 2 mac laptops, 6 iOS devices, and 2 kindles. Depending on which device I'm on is going to reflect which books I want with me at any given time.
For any media other than ebooks I already have good solutions for making things work between all devices. I am however glad it is on the roadmap, and I wish I was a programmer to help get it done.
It is just annoying to have to attach to a calibre server via web browser and download the book. Then turn around an import it into Calibre again.