[Faterson]

Originally Posted by chilady1

I have downloaded Marvin and I absolutely love this app but having a hard time understanding how to integrate with Calibre via OPDS. When I had Stanza - I was able to view my entire library via the setup and wondering how I can do this with Marvin.

If you read some of my earlier posts in this mega-thread, you know I consider the desire to "integrate Calibre with Marvin" to be old-fashioned and inefficient.

Why? Because it's so much easier just to instruct cloud software like Dropbox or SugarSync or Box.net, to mirror your entire Calibre "Books" folder online -- so that you always have access to any of your Calibre books on any of your traditional computers or handheld devices. There is no need to set up any direct connection between Calibre and Marvin any longer! And no need to be running your iPad and a different computer (with Calibre) at the same time. The other computer can be switched off, but you still have access to all of your Calibre books -- isn't that cool?

If, however, you insist on being "old-fashioned" , you can still do it "the old way", and easily set up a direct connection between Calibre and Marvin. Here is how:

1. In Calibre, push the "Connect/share" button. Then press "Start Content Server". Then push the "Connect/share" button again. Write down the IP address you will see there: it will have (for example) the format 1xx.xxx.x.xxx.
2. Then in Marvin on your iPad, push the "OPDS Catalogs" button. Then press "Tap here to add a new catalog". In the "Name" field, enter (for example) Calibre. In the "Address" field, enter the IP address you wrote down earlier, but (!!!!!) add something more to it, namely :8080/opds. So, the entire thing you should enter there, is:
   
   1xx.xxx.x.xxx:8080/opds

That's it! Your Marvin should now be connected to your Calibre, so you can browse your Calibre contents as you wish.

(But, as said, you can also just forget all these setups, and use the easier Dropbox/SugarSync way instead.)

Originally Posted by chilady1

In addition, when I had Stanza I was able to see my entire library but I believe Marvin has an API restrictions of only 1000 viewable, is this correct?

No, that's incorrect. There are no such restrictions regarding Calibre.

(There is one such limit, but only for the internal Dropbox access from within Marvin. However, you can easily get around that restriction, too, by opening books from the Dropbox app on your iPad, instead of from within Marvin.)

Originally Posted by chilady1

Lastly, once I get everything set up properly will I be able to see my Collections as they exist in Calibre? Again, I was able to view books in Stanza via Author, Title or Series but not sure how to do this with Marvin.

You can do all of that in Marvin, and much more. When you import a book from Calibre to Marvin (either via Dropbox/SugarSync, or using OPDS/web browser), then Marvin preserves all the Calibre meta-tags. So that you can then sort your books in Marvin using Calibre's Author, Title, Series (and many other custom) tags, just like we used to do it in Stanza.