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Originally Posted by robcohen
Marty - just seeing your posting tonight. This sounds most interesting. I downloaded a trial copy for now and will give it a shot this coming week.
Thanks for taking this on. I can't wait to play with your app in the next few days. Will be nice to show the family a Modern app I can actually show off as useful. So far there's been nothing really compelling there to get me using the Modern side, but I guess Microsoft is figuring that's the case for a few people if recent updates and rumors are correct.
Not that sure the read-only DB business will be an issue for me and I like your compromise of making a copy for your app. If I recall correctly (?) there's no way of telling if the DB is open or not so this seems like a good start. I keep read-only copies elsewhere anyway so this seems interesting. Of course it would be really great someday to be able to share the entire library via the network or Dropbox or Google Drive in full read/write.
Will get you some feedback when I've had some time to use it.
Rob
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I appreciate that. Do let me know if this is useful and if there is anything in particular that bothers you, needs changing, or otherwise constitutes a problem. As I said, I wrote it primarily because I had a need for something like this myself. Frankly, windows metro should have come with something to organize and read ebooks. For a tablet format, I can see metro really working, but the apps aren't there. Unlike many, I don't hate it. I just hate that the appstore is 99% utter garbage.
In principle, this can run in a networked way. It may be read only, but since the app checks for changes to the original database, it will sync to the most recent metadata.db in the folder selected. Mine is located on OneDrive, so that changes I make on my PC automatically propagate to this thing, assuming I have connectivity--I have my onedrive fully synced to a local copy, so in the absence of an active connection, it still works. I would not recommend using a remote-only Calibre library, since I expect it will lead to trouble in the absence of connectivity.
The one thing I am seriously considering is allowing it to work with multiple libraries, which I do have. I should be able to do that in a way to allow searches and sorting across libraries.