[chaley]

Originally Posted by JonMoss

I'm wondering if I just threw away $3 when I purchased Calibre Companion this morning and installed it on my tablet. I'd been using FB Reader with OPDS for several months (quite happily) but for some reason this morning I thought I'd give Calibre Companion a try. So far, I'm not impressed.

If you are unhappy with CC then ask for a refund. Life is too short for stress over $3. See the FAQ answer I must pay for CC to try it. What happens if I don't like it? for instructions.

1. I connected Wirelessly to my Calibre install that also runs as Content Server. When it finished whatever it needed to do, it only showed items from my scheduled news. None of my 1,200 ebooks were displayed. Kind of useless if I can't browse my catalog.

In addition to what Dhevi pointed out, be sure that you aren't specifying a virtual library in the content server's preferences.

1.a. I sent some ebooks from my Calibre via the 'Send to Device' feature and that worked fine. Again, not the best use of tablet/wireless access to my Calibre catalog if I have to do it from my computer manually.

The wireless device connection supports automatic updating of calbre's metadata and covers in CC without resending books, on-device indications in calibre, syncing of read information, bulk sending, and auto-sync via the Reading List plugin, none of which is supported using the content server. If these features aren't useful to you then you might be happier staying with FBReader's OPDS connection.

2. Attempted to add several custom columns, including #pubdate, but as far as I can tell, you can only add one column. Everytime I went to add the second column, it just replaced the previous column with the one I just added.

Almost certainly Dhevi hit this one on the head.

Connected to Content Server, Calibre Companion functions similarly as via a web browser or the OPDS catalog browser in FB Reader.

This is true, with the exception of CC's support of "download all" and all custom columns in book metadata.