Thread: Feature Request: Reading Timer and Speed in Calibre Viewer
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Old 04-03-2015, 11:16 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by truth1ness View Post
When you read Overdrive books do you use the web interface or their app? I think the web reader can work when you have an accompanying app that can sync down a local copy of the books, which is my main concern. I don't know how successful Overdrive and Kindle would be if they only had wifi-only browser versions of their app and no dedicated Overdrive/Kindle apps to actually store books and full time internet accessible cloud library.

A Calibre App + Dropbox sync workflow would whoop them, though, imho.
calibre is written mainly in python and there are no plans to ever port it to a native Android/iOS app.

OverDrive has an app, but also offers a web interface, useful on a PC.
It uses localstorage, as does Kindle Cloud Reader, as would calibre-server... for the reasons you specified.
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