[eurasiarc]

Thanks for the constructive ideas about Calibre and book management.

I am finding Calibre companion quite useful for organizing books and access to whatever readers one has on an android device. All of my books have now been converted to epub, except pdf files. With regard to tags and metadata, It is great that you can update them and reconvert them to epub, which I find is the most useful and preferable format for most books.

I am relatively new to reading books on an android device and have been checking out and experimenting with some of the main readers. Here are a few things that I have observed about several of the readers. It is good that most readers allow you to locate epub books by their tags.

Montano readers have the advantage of allowing one to create categories and subcategories and also show tags. Montano also allows you to set a folder on your external sdcard as the default folder for books and does not create new copies of each book and store them in a new folder taking up unnecessary space. This can be the same folder that you use to send and store your Calibre books.

So far what I have found with Aldiko is that it imports files and folders created with Calibre and copies them into a separate folder taking up enormous space.

Moon reader seems to have a strange way of page numbering with epub books. It starts numbering books from the beginning of each chapter instead of numbering them from the beginning of the book.

For any ebooks, I find that book marking and annotation is important, in my case, mostly book marking. Some pdf readers seem to have ability to make annotations but not bookmarks.

Google play books has a great number of free books from about 1930 and backwards. Most of these books are in both pdf and epub form. The epub form is atrocious for its inability do do correct OCR. The pdf version with a photocopy of each page instead of flowing text is actually quite readable. The problem is that wireless network access can be very slow and Google Play seems to store copies of everything your read on the internal SD card of an Android. I'm finding that they can be read more easily downloading them to a computer then sending them back to the Android device using Calibre and calibre companion after you set the external microsdcard as the default for file storage. Google play books stored on the android can be accessed without difficulty whereas sometimes it is difficult to read them off of your Google play books account on the Internet.

Just a few of the things I have discovered racently about managing and reading ebooks.

Hope that these observations have been accurate and may be of use to other new ebook managers like myself.