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Originally Posted by bobstro
How are you doing this, Harry? When I change the CC settings to use the card, it warns me that it will only be able to use the "private" folder (/android/data/...). If I use that setting, I can pull books down using CC. If I change it to another folder on uSD, it fails when trying to write the book file.
With the downloaded books in the CC private directory on uSD, I am unable to browse to that folder using Mantano's book browser. Trying to specify it as an import folder also fails.
My understanding is that, under KitKat, and app can write only to its own private folder on removable/secondary storage, and that other apps will not be able to read files from that location. Am I missing something?
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CC plus Mantano is also my android reading setup of choice. I have a Galaxy TabPRO running KitKat. It all works fine for me when I tell CC to save books to CC's own directory on the external SD card.
I stopped using most of Mantano's library functions a long time ago as CC is much better than Mantano at everything I want to do library-wise. If I select a book in CC and choose Mantano as the reading app, the book is automatically 'imported' into Mantano. I don't believe the book is duplicated, just the metadata is added to the Mantano database.
If I do open Mantano directly, only the books I've opened via CC are shown - which suits me fine as the Mantano database stays very small. I have no need to use Mantano's import options directly anymore.
If I've deleted a Mantano-viewed book via CC then the cover is greyed-out if I go back into Mantano directly and I can leave it alone or delete Mantano's database entry.
If I want to go into Mantano so I can create a homescreen shortcut to 'currently reading' books - that also works fine.
For interest, what do you think Mantano does better than CC with library functionality?
Having said all that, I did choose to store epubs (95% fiction) in CC's default directory in internal memory as I wanted to be sure DropBox/DropSync would work on those. I'm not sure whether the 3rd-party DropBox combo could handle books on the external SD card, but I assumed not. The big reference-type books (PDF, DJVU, CHM, CBZ) that I don't need write-access to are fine on the external SD card.