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Originally Posted by eschwartz
You can always use calibre server, on any device with any app. You can go to it from the browser and open books in any supported apps.
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While you can browse your collection with mobile web on IOS, it fails to download any books (at least for me, it's never worked), so that's not an option on the IPad.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
The purpose of Calibre Companion is different. Not only does it allow you to connect wirelessly as a device and store books, it allows you to have endless sorting and search functionality equal to calibre itself, and control all your books in every format from one central location.
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For me, while I love that Calibre Companion has helped me move books from Calibre to the device easily on Android up until now, I've always considered it redundant when used with Mantano. When you connect to Content Server in CC, you get the exact same view as in the OPDS feed, no sorting, searching, etc. You only get those features when you download the content to the CC catalog, then you click a book, and it gets loaded again into Mantano's library, which is where you get all those same sorting and searching features that CC has. In this scenario you are maintaining 3 catalogs needlessly.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Not everyone needs that, of course. If so, OPDS feeds should suffice admirably. (Barring the need for a constantly running server, and a lack of connectivity everywhere...)
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With the feeds, you don't need a constantly running server any more than you would with CC... once you select the book from the feed, it gets loaded into Mantano's library and you're good to disconnect, no middleman.