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Originally Posted by kaufman
Ok, I am back on track again.
Two requests if you do 1.
1) An option to grab all of the subfolders in a folder in order to do multiple imports at once.
2) An option to have CC delete the subfolders after it does the import.
The more you do from within CC the more steps you can save for your user.
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Both of these are reasonable.
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As far as the separate app goes, if you do it, I will buy it to support you, but I think its a waste of your time. Unless the app is going to recreate a lot of the searching/sorting functionality of calibre and/or CC, it doesn't seem like its going to be a lot better than just using a file manager that connects to dropbox (ie Solid Explorer).
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It would recreate some functionality offered by calibre by allowing some level of searching via data in metadata.db, such as by series or by tag. It is easy to find a book using the file manager if one knows exactly what to look for, but it is hard if you do not. An easy example: multi-author books where I don't remember who is the first author. I don't see a strong need to sort, or even to show covers.
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Also, if you are going to create that extra layer, it seems like it might be better to do it as a paid add-on to CC. Its not like anyone is going to buy it unless they already have CC anyhow.
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The problem here is "how?" Amazon and Google use different in-app purchasing, requiring two different apps or a licensing app. A lot of people will not buy apps that contain IAP. Licensing apps are trivially pirated. It would be harder to offer some sort of trial/demo version. It would slave the releases together. Offering it as a separate app removes these constraints, but adds the complexity of two aps. You are also right that doing so would create the possibility that someone would by the adjunct app not knowing that it requires CC. We would fight that with some text as the first line of the description. If that is ignored -- oh well.