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Originally Posted by drmadhupk
This might have been wished for earlier.
Ability to add books to cc directly on device with ability to download metadata and save it on device just like on calibre. These books and metadata can be synced with calibre later.
I download a lot of books on my mobile. I have to copy them to pc... add to calibre.... download metadata.... connect cc wirelessly/content server..... then add book and metadata to cc on device. If it was possible to add books to cc library directly on device we could just sync with calibre later when connected wirelessly. This way cc can also be used as a standalone app (if intentions are to have cc never as a standalone app, please ignore)
sorry if this was dealt with earlier.
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This is one that won't happen for the reason you gave. As soon as we start moving CC toward a standalone app we will be required to support editing metadata. We would be pressured to be compatible with calibre, including things like the template language, saved searches, multi-format, and so on; to download metadata; and to update metadata in books. Calibre does all these things very well.
From time to time Kovid has talked about making a client/server calibre. If that happens then we would certainly provide a client. A desktop client/server implementation would need to come first so that we know that the protocol is complete and so we have a stable test bed. That is calibre-side work I would almost certainly help with if/when the idea percolates up to the top of Kovid's infinitely deep stack.