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Originally Posted by chaley
I just checked my dropbox account. *Every app* has full access, including Moon+, calibre cloud, dropsync, and folder downloader. I am not sure that it is possible for an app to get restricted access. So you already have given read/write access to relatively obscure apps.
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additional response on that.
the way that C cloud works makes it unable to see any epub outside of the calibre library folder. It uses metadata.db as i'ts index of what it available. ( as I'd expect from an app with calibre in the name).So although it has wider permissions in theory, it cannot actually see any book or text file placed in dropbox root folder or placed elsewhere in dropbox; and I don't
think it has any upload facility, or even any delete facility it is just a dumb db browser.
but the other epub reader apps present a file/ folder explorer, via a dropbox tab, and they will open any file from anywhere in dropbox, if it is in a format they understand.
I assume the do something similar for google drive, but as amazon ban me from accessing that via my Kindle tablet I'm only guessing
This again is reasonable - they are advertising access to dropbox / google drive not access to calibre backups!
But what they ( probably ) lack - as I've not spent much time with then, - is the ability to preview all of the calibre metadata, like your app and the C cloud app can do.
Of course, if you were a crazed capitalist megalomaniac, and not a normal nice guy, (albeit one who uses the word "monetize" ) you could make a hostile takeover bid for C cloud & bundle that into a super "triple C " branded app ( icons of cowboys, rodeos, horses optional)
