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Originally Posted by chaley
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.
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Sorry to trouble you about something which you said is never going to happen.
Is it possible to just have a option only to add books to cc directly on device but leave out ability to download metadata. And have these books under something like "books without metadata". This way I can add books to cc and read them when needed. When I get the next opportunity to access calibre with wireless router, I can sync these books with calibre - download metadata for these books on calibre and sync the metadata back to cc. This way cc wont be standalone and all metadata features are handled by calibre. I am wishing this because I get access to wireless router only occasionally.