I will try to respond to all the various posts etc using this one as a trigger.
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Originally Posted by binarygoddess
Hopefully this is the right place for this!
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Yes, it is.
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First off, amazing app... LOVE IT!
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Thank you.
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There are a couple things that would pretty much make it the absolute MOST amazing calibre companion ever.
I believe I saw mentioned you were considering cloud connect? Please please please PLEASE do add this! I keep my library on dropbox, and I've been using Calibre Cloud Pro to access it on the go, but it doesn't allow me to search by series, and the book information does not display series numbers that have decimal points, so a book 0.5 or 0.75 (prequels to the series, for example) are displayed with no series number at all, and books 2 and 2.5 are both displayed as Book 2. I read a LOT of books in series, so it gets confusing, and annoying, and reporting this to the dev has gotten no response in months.
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This is on the wishlist as "A content-server like interface to access a calibre library in the cloud."
I hope to do it, but as with anything there are issues. Most are technical such as the support of a zillion different cloud storage services. Some are time constraints, and some are related to pricing and finance.
The last issue is the one that presents the most difficulty other than finding the time to build it. Adding the equivalent of another app to CC raises the question about how we get compensated. Do we raise the price of CC? That has its own set of problems. Do we add in-app purchasing? That is a large pain and would mean we must do it twice, once for Amazon and once for GP. Do we include in the base package and hope that increased sales cover the increased costs and effort? Do we use an "unlocker app" such as used by dropsync and others? Those are almost trivial to pirate.
My apologies for dumping our internal reflections on you, but they are very real to us. I will probably build the feature, putting off how to resolve the questions until I can't wait any longer.
NB: If I build the feature, it won't be available before (at least) the end of the year.
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Secondly, it would be super nice if you could do, at least, an "open with" type operation when your app option isn't available. A couple things CCpro does right is that it allows you to click-upload books to google play when they are epubs, and more importantly, click-email mobi books to my kindle email address, which lets me get them into the "amazon clouds" and I can keep my reading progress synced between my Nexus 7, my Moto G phone and my Kindle Paperwhite. (CCPro supposedly will add books to your kindle app without the email, but it's never worked for me so.. meh)
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Apparently you found the "Upload to google books" function, but it isn't clear that you found the "Send book to app" function. This second permits you to do all sorts of things with a book such as email it or add it to dropbox. On my phone I get 7 choices. You should be able to use this function to email a book to your kindle account.
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There was a lot of discussion about using the content server. This is what I do and it works perfectly. However, your final point is the same as mine: I don't want to leave a computer on my home network powered on and running 24/7. Not only would I have the intrinsic security problems that come from opening my net to the world, but I need a computer that costs something to buy (probably at least $250) and maintain, and I would also need to pay for the power. At Paris prices power alone would cost approximately €12/month (US$16/month) (assumes 150 watts/hour at €0.10/KWH. You can do both better and worse than this).
Instead of a machine on my home net I use a cloud-based virtual server. Mine is provided by Linode at $10/month. It is on 24/7, the hardware is supplied and managed by someone else, the network is very fast, and it is perfectly capable of running a calibre content server. I use Dropbox as the transport to copy my library from my home machine to my machine in the sky, so the content server sees the changes almost as soon as I make them. The content server has the large advantage of being HTTP based, so network access isn't blocked when other cloud services might be (hotels, airports, etc). My suspicion is that my virtual content server is higher performance than any dropbox-like solution would be because the hard work is done on the server, not on the device.