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Originally Posted by cybmole
sorry but I think that is a really BAD idea. 3rd party reader apps are happy to have a single defined directory for their auto-import function, but a calibre style set of nested folders could be problematic,
I much prefer pointing C companion, C cloud, Mantano, moon reader... all at the same single tablet directory.
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No need to be sorry, but I have to disagree with your idea of having three unrelated programs store their data in the same directory. What happens if one of the programs starts storing unrelated data that confuses the other two? What happens if there are filename collisions? What happens if you want to store your books on the SD card and only one of the three programs can write to the file? But most of all, I keep about 5 thousand books in my CC library. The only ones I want showing up in MoonReader are the ones I have specifically asked to be there.
Having the same file structure between CC and Calibre makes more sense because they share a lot of the same developers, and because it simplifies a lot of the cloud sync effort. It may not be a good idea for other reasons, but "I want to use the current folder for a bunch of other programs" is probably not the biggest among them.
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Originally Posted by cybmole
& let's not even get into the migration issue for folks who'd have all their books suddenly in the "wrong" place on their phones/tablets, when the y installed the upgrade
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I bet if you polled the typical CC user and asked them, they would have no idea if their books were stored in one directory or a whole bunch of subdirectories. And if they were moved all around, they would have no idea about that either. Why would they care?
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Originally Posted by cybmole
I'm just wondering when someone will jump to where this thread seems to be going & say , lets just write a calibre for android & be done with it  |
I think that's been brought up and rejected by Chaley.
Having said that, if someone came out with a complete and perfect implementation of Calibre for Android that perfectly synced across the cloud, I would not switch from CC to it. Calibre is a great tool for editing and maintaining a book library. But I don't need to do that on my phone. CC is a far better tool for browsing an existing database on a phone or tablet.