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I didn't mean to play down the effort involved, and I had sort of left the original suggestion of creating one into a general venting. There are multiple readers that do most or, at least, of what is required, several of them are commercial. What most of them need is either adding a connection to Calibre or the ability to handle a couple of other formats. So what I meant by 'Why is it so hard' was really why one of the existing ereader app creators, who have most of the main structure in place, can't add handling for additional formats or Calibre server support.
I agree that the demand is probably not sufficient to support the costs, since most (90+%?) are probably perfectly happy just getting their books from Amazon or Itunes, and have no need for serious library/organizer/multi format readers. While I am a very experienced programmer, I have never programmed anything for the Android or IoS platforms, so I have no idea what's involved. I know there are open source renderers for several of the popular formats, and some non-open source options as well, but I have no idea what it would take to port them to Android and IoS.
Anyway, like I said, its mostly venting at this point. I will certainly get CC for my Android and ebook Search for my Ipad. That will go a long way toward filling in the gaps. I do love Calibre, and I certainly appreciate the great effort Kovid and others have put into it.
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