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bhdavis · 05-10-2012, 03:46 PM

I'm planning on buying an eReader and I'm considering getting a T1. During the discussion in the "Which should I buy?" forum, it was pointed out how easy it is to add ePubs to the reader using DropBox and the web browser, and that got me to thinking. What if we could modify a DropBox client to work with the T1 without a web interface? It would work the way DropBox works on any other system- when a new file is added to DropBox, that file is propagated to every client immediately (if they're currently connected) or the next time they go online. There are DropBox clients for Linux and for Android, so once a T1 was rooted, it wouldn't be hard to install and I doubt it'd be difficult to configure to specify the local path. The next thing I'd do woul dbe to add a daemon to monitor the DropBox folder on the T1, and any time that an ePub file is added to the folder it would automatically be added to the library. Actually, the more I think about it, the less I'm convinced it needs to be a daemon running- it could simply be a part of the normal event monitoring that goes on with a GUI interface. Whenever any menu is displayed, it would check for files, and if present it would add them to the library. This auto-add feature could be disabled and a button could be added to manually sync up. If you then combine this with something like Instapaper and saving Instapaper ePubs to that folder, you'd have an easy wireless way to add ePubs and internet articles to your ereader for future reading.

What do you guys think?

05-10-2012, 03:46 PM	#1
bhdavis Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 294 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	An idea I'm planning on buying an eReader and I'm considering getting a T1. During the discussion in the "Which should I buy?" forum, it was pointed out how easy it is to add ePubs to the reader using DropBox and the web browser, and that got me to thinking. What if we could modify a DropBox client to work with the T1 without a web interface? It would work the way DropBox works on any other system- when a new file is added to DropBox, that file is propagated to every client immediately (if they're currently connected) or the next time they go online. There are DropBox clients for Linux and for Android, so once a T1 was rooted, it wouldn't be hard to install and I doubt it'd be difficult to configure to specify the local path. The next thing I'd do woul dbe to add a daemon to monitor the DropBox folder on the T1, and any time that an ePub file is added to the folder it would automatically be added to the library. Actually, the more I think about it, the less I'm convinced it needs to be a daemon running- it could simply be a part of the normal event monitoring that goes on with a GUI interface. Whenever any menu is displayed, it would check for files, and if present it would add them to the library. This auto-add feature could be disabled and a button could be added to manually sync up. If you then combine this with something like Instapaper and saving Instapaper ePubs to that folder, you'd have an easy wireless way to add ePubs and internet articles to your ereader for future reading. What do you guys think?