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Originally Posted by booklover6
Dropbox app comes with the rooting package. At least it did for the one I used.
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Ok, cool, that's good to know.
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Originally Posted by bla
as it stands the T1 ignores anything in your dropbox folder that is NOT a supported format and you can choose which supported files to download, I use dropbox to add the odd book but I use drag-n-drop (while charging)to add more than a few, it's not really that complicated unless you want to make it complicated by implementing "sync" and using PC Reader/ and/or Calibre in which case you need to RTFM. I have 2000 +books in 81 collections all transferred and organized very simply without once having to wrestle with PC Reader/Calibre, the KISS principle applies here . I use PC Reader to keep my firmware updated and Calibre to fix/convert formats....
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Part of the reason I want something like this is because I like to read newspapers and news articles and I'd like to be able to do that easily on an eReader. Instapaper makes it really convenient to turn newspaper articles into ePubs, but it's a bit of a pain in the butt to then transfer them to the eReader. I'd have to do it every morning before work, but the system I'm envisioning here would allow me to bypass that. I can make a bookmark for my browser that performs the "Read it Later" function with InstaPaper, then it would activate the Download Link and specify the a path to my DropBox folder on my computer. That would sync up with the DropBox cloud- turn the eReader and WiFi while I'm showering, it downloads the ePubs and puts them on the device automatically and then I can grab it and go. Sure, it's not THAT much harder to do it with a USB cable, but why? I don't think this'll be hard to do. I just don't have the T1 device yet to do it on.
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Originally Posted by Cdesja5
Open a separate Dropbox account just for your books...
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Yeah, that would work and that's what my first inclination was- on the other hand, I use my DropBox account a lot. It's way more convenient than using a USB memory stick, and at some point I'll forget to disconnect from the ePub dropbox account and I'll drop a bunch of crap for work into it which the eReader will then try to download necessarily. It's not the end of the world, but it'd be annoying. Plus, I can't see any reason why it should be difficult to get DropBox client on the T1 to only look in one folder. I haven't looked at the API for DropBox, so maybe it can't do that, but that seems silly to me.