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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby

You add folders using your PC, and add it with the same process you used to move and add the koreader folder to your device. With windows it would be using windows explorer. You can add an entire file structured "library" if you wish. For use with calibre and koreader, I would make it a folder inside a hidden folder. (Perhaps; .koreader/inbox, then long press on "inbox", in File Manager, and set it as your inbox folder, when asked.)

Yes, but I was already trying to configure Calibre wireless via KoReader at the time, so I just picked a directory that it would allow me to pick. Does it matter WHICH directory you select? Does it HAVE to be named Inbox, and does it have to be in a particular place?

The problem is that now that I have selected a directory to use as the Inbox, it doesn't ask me any more. I can find no way to change this.

First your network must be one that your device recognizes (normally it is easiest to use the Nickel settings to do that)

This isn't mentioned on the Calibre wireless page at GitHub. I followed those directions. What are the Nickel settings and values that need to be set?

Then Koreader's "Network" menu should let you turn on the WiFi connection (used for several functions, as well as this). Then the "Calibre wireless connection" menu will let you "connect".

Well now I am really confused. I can't find any "network" menu in KoReader. I had the wireless enabled via KSM, but now when I check that status, where it was previously showing "enabled", it now shows

sdio wifi pwr.ko: not loaded
dhd.ko: not loaded

With that you can, on your PC, in caliber, you can select multiple library entries and "Send to device" which will put them into your "inbox". (Although it is not working for me right now. [koreader is loosing the WiFi connection]

But - I would rather just turn on calibre's content server and OPDS to it. This usually works fine, but not at the moment.

Well - not working for me at all atm, but I doubt I have it configured correctly yet.

As far as I can tell, OPDS is some sort of HTML based cataloging system. It seemed complicated and sort of not very direct.

However I already use and am more than satisfied with Calibre. If there is any way to get it to work directly through Calibre that would be my preference. I want to use it to sideload books out of my Calibre library - that is where I keep EVERYTHING readable from all sources.

Do you think the wireless issue you are having is software or hardware related? If its something about your hardware, then perhaps it might yet work for me if I can get it configured properly - which apparently is not the case yet.

The "History" menu item should be giving you that. You can have koreader start where you left off in your current book, when it starts, by setting the "Start with last opened file" menu option checked.

When I first installed KoReader, starting it ALWAYS started it in the file manager.

Even if I opened a book to read, the next time it came up in file manager in the directory where the factory software had put the books I have loaded. They are always sorted in alphabetical order by author as that is how the factory software organizes books - folder with the author's name, and inside books by title.

After I found the setting "start with last opened file", it was opening a file that I have finally figured out (by finding it in History) called "updatehistory.txt"

From there, I had a completely different menu when I tap at the top - this is where I finally found the settings to (apparently incorrectly) configure Calibre wireless. I could not get to this when KoReader was starting up in the File Manager, no matter what I did.

Now what it is doing is it is ALWAYS starting up in the last book I was reading and I can't find any way to get out of THAT state now. Feast or famine - I either can't get to last book read directly, or I can't get OUT of it, LOL!

Is there a way to get it to always open up in the History? A script, maybe?

There are "DTAP_ZONE_" entries in the "Advanced Settings", including ones for BACKWARD, FORWARD, AND MENU. (There is also one for "FLIPPING" that I think is a page refresh.)

It is my understanding - and I think its obvious at this point that "my understanding" doesn't really stretch all that far - that FLIPPING is used only for PDF files in some way. That is one of the few things I found documented at GitHub - I think it may have been in the Tips & Tricks section.

Assumptions about how the tap activation works under the spoiler

Spoiler:

I surmise that

• (x,y) = (0,0) is the top left corner of the screen;
• (x,y) coordinates are expressed in units as a percentage of the physical screen height and width
• x is the horizontal coordinate
• y is the vertical coordinate
• y is expressed as a positive value as you go DOWN
• x is expressed as a positive value as you move to the RIGHT
• height is expressed in a percentage of screen height, downward from the y coordinate
• width is expressed in a percentage of screen width, to the right from the defined x coordinate

In Advanced Settings, I find
DTAP_ZONE_CONFIG = {y = 0, x = 0, h = 0, w = 0}
DTAP_ZONE_FLIPPING = {y = 0, x = 0, h = 0.125, w = 0.125}
DTAP_ZONE_BOOKMARK = {y = 0, x = 0.875, h = 0.125, w = 0.125}
DTAP_ZONE_MENU = {y = 0, x = 0.125, h = 0.25, w = 0.75}
DTAP-ZONE_BACKWARD = {y = 0, x = 0, h = 1, w = 0.25}
DTAP_ZONE_FORWARD = {y = 0, x = 0.25, h = 1, w = 0.75}
DTAP_ZONE_MINIBAR = {y = 0.9375, x = 0, h = 0.0625, w = 1}

I don't know what "CONFIG" would do, but as defined, it can't be accessed as its activation zone has 0 width and 0 height.

Currently the "FLIPPING" activation zone overlaps the top left corner of the "MENU" activation zone, and the "BOOKMARK" activation zone overlaps the top right corner of the "MENU" activation zone. Each of these are 0.5" wide and approx 0.67" tall, in their respective corners, while the "menu" activation zone is approx 1.25" tall and extends across the entire width of the screen. Tapping anywhere in there that doesn't fall into one of the 2 overlapping zone will bring up the menu.

I believe what I want to do may be accomplished via the following settings:

DTAP_ZONE_MENU = {y = 0, x = 0.125, h = 0.125, w = 0.75}
DTAP-ZONE_BACKWARD = {y = 0.125, x = 0, h = 0.375, w = 1}
DTAP_ZONE_FORWARD = {y = 0.5, x = 0, h = 0.4375, w = 1}

I see no advantage to having the MENU activation area twice the height of the activation areas to its left and right; this gives me better access for the Page Back activation area as well.

Now the activation areas for PAGE BACK and PAGE FORWARD are fitted in between the 3 activation areas defined at the top and the one at the bottom, with tapping inside the top half effecting the PAGE BACK and tapping inside the bottom half (but above the minibar) will effect a PAGE FORWARD.

This seems to work - until I power the device down. When I power it back up again, those settings have reverted to their original values. Is that normal? Is there some step I am missing that would make these values persist across powerdowns?

I usually use the USB cable to add books but I have used both wireless methods a few times and the OPDS with web sites also.

Luck;
Ken

The issue for me is that a lot of my library is on the computer in the living room which is attached to the TV. This means that I am sitting a fair distance away from the actual computer - with a wireless keyboard and mouse.

Aside from the physical difficulty involved in getting up and plugging in/unplugging the device (I have some physical impairments, which is why I seem so picky about how I hold and page the reader), the space where the computer sits requires that I place the device, while plugged in, on what is essentially a cat launching area. Damage to the device is a risk if I have to physically plug into the USB and then manipulate everything from a distance, LOL!

So it would be REALLY, REALLY helpful to me to be able to use the wireless. This is, in fact, the sole useful purpose for having wireless in an e-reader as far as I am concerned - if it will allow me to connect to Calibre without having to physically get up and down and around.

Thank you for your continued help.

BTW - is there documentation somewhere for what all those settings under "Advanced Setting" do?

And is it possible to totally disable the dictionary? I have no use for it and its annoying that it keeps trying to define words when I'm a little slow to lift my finger after paging.