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Originally Posted by ecoolman
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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Odd. Is this a problem with Safari specifically?
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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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If all you need CC for is to move books to your Android, then OPDS can indeed duplicate that effect. CC has a greater scope for metadata integration with calibre and searching, which is where its main use comes from.
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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.
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True. You could always download
all the books into Mantano. But then you don't need OPDS either, do you?
