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judyni · 05-25-2014, 12:34 AM

I downloaded it tonight but found the only cloud I could get to is OneDrive. I have an OPDS repository for HTML/OPDS (calibre2opds) on my website which one can get to from some readers or just go there with a browser and download, but my only offsite backup of the library itself is on livedrive. Not on OneDrive. I'm copying the library to a portable drive now and will try it tomorrow with a connected portable drive.

I'm confused about support for the cloud on Windows 8.1 (my desktops are 7) but here's how another app looks and how Calibre Library looks. Other apps tend to show the following choices: OneDrive, This PC, Libraries, Homegroup, Network which Calibre Library also shows. But Book Bazaar Reader (my favorite because I can copy and paste from it) shows, after a line below the above sources, the (other) two cloud storage places that I have apps installed on this computer for: ASUS WebStorage (it's an ASUS Transformer tablet) and Livedrive. Livedrive is my primary back/storage location because I have unlimited storage with them for a very good price.

So I would suggest you need to support other cloud options and one would hope that would be a simple change.

I would argue against your trying to make a reader. Too much work to make one competitive. There are some very good readers out there. I use several. Besides Book Bazaar Reader, Freda has text to speech which is quite good and I use Microsoft Reader for PDFs.

From the beginning with the tablets (my husband has an Android) I didn't like the readers keeping their own repositories. Especially with the ridiculously small storage available on tablets, if I start reading something with one reader and decide to switch for whatever reason, there's another copy! And so far it's so difficult to find out what's where and how big everything is in Metro-land (Tile-World). That being said, I got the thing to be a tablet not a computer, so I live almost entirely in Tile World. (My real notebook is very large and very heavy and capable of doing anything I need to do with my photography when we travel, which is a lot.)

My guess is I'll go with OPDS or downloading from the same source with a browser, but this is an interesting alternate option and I'll play with it tomorrow.

Regards,
Judy

05-25-2014, 12:34 AM	#17
judyni Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2014 Device: kindle, tablets	I downloaded it tonight but found the only cloud I could get to is OneDrive. I have an OPDS repository for HTML/OPDS (calibre2opds) on my website which one can get to from some readers or just go there with a browser and download, but my only offsite backup of the library itself is on livedrive. Not on OneDrive. I'm copying the library to a portable drive now and will try it tomorrow with a connected portable drive. I'm confused about support for the cloud on Windows 8.1 (my desktops are 7) but here's how another app looks and how Calibre Library looks. Other apps tend to show the following choices: OneDrive, This PC, Libraries, Homegroup, Network which Calibre Library also shows. But Book Bazaar Reader (my favorite because I can copy and paste from it) shows, after a line below the above sources, the (other) two cloud storage places that I have apps installed on this computer for: ASUS WebStorage (it's an ASUS Transformer tablet) and Livedrive. Livedrive is my primary back/storage location because I have unlimited storage with them for a very good price. So I would suggest you need to support other cloud options and one would hope that would be a simple change. I would argue against your trying to make a reader. Too much work to make one competitive. There are some very good readers out there. I use several. Besides Book Bazaar Reader, Freda has text to speech which is quite good and I use Microsoft Reader for PDFs. From the beginning with the tablets (my husband has an Android) I didn't like the readers keeping their own repositories. Especially with the ridiculously small storage available on tablets, if I start reading something with one reader and decide to switch for whatever reason, there's another copy! And so far it's so difficult to find out what's where and how big everything is in Metro-land (Tile-World). That being said, I got the thing to be a tablet not a computer, so I live almost entirely in Tile World. (My real notebook is very large and very heavy and capable of doing anything I need to do with my photography when we travel, which is a lot.) My guess is I'll go with OPDS or downloading from the same source with a browser, but this is an interesting alternate option and I'll play with it tomorrow. Regards, Judy