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Originally Posted by drmadhupk
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.
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Sorry, but to do this would require metadata editing, something that is not going to happen. Why? When you add a book to CC in the fashion you suggest, where would CC get the title, author, etc? The only reliable way to get it would be for the user to enter it, which is metadata editing. In some cases alternates exist such as downloading metadata like calibre does (again, not something we will do) or getting metadata from inside the file (hard and unreliable, especially for PDFs).
Perhaps you could do something with calibre's content server. Add the book to calibre (I assume you have access to calibre), then fetch the book from its content server. The content server connection supports connecting to external computers, meaning that although you need a network connection it doesn't have to be one that can connect to the calibre machine. Instead you could come in over a 3G connection, as long as the calibre machine is visible on the 'net.