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Hofferic · 05-09-2015, 05:53 AM

Hey all,

I have been growig frustrated with using Calibre Cloud Pro to access my Calibre library on the go. I used it because my primary computer is most often not in the same wireless network as my devices are (which is neccesary for Calibre Companion to work AFAIK). Calibre Cloud Pro did not support searching in book descriptions, filtering by attributes or sorting in any but the 4 preset modes. It also has a nasty habit of auto-updating its copy of my (big) library on my shitty mobile connection, which renders it unusable for minutes at a time if I change as much as a single Tag. It also only supports a single Library at a time, which I found restrictive.

So, as a part of my bachelors thesis I wrote a new Android App that can open any number of Calibre libraries from a users Dropbox account. It supports search in Titles, Tags, Series names and book descriptions (all optional), has (optional) search suggestions for Titles, Tags and Series names and supports a wide variety of sorting and filtering options. Additionally you can sort or filter based on a custom column. The tags, author and series title shown in the detail view for a book link back to the search window for ease of use and there are tow download options to either open a book directly when a download is finished or leave the notification around for you to open at a later data. It will also warn you if the library is out of date but will not force the Update

I also made sure it looks nice

The App is available for free (though limited to 2 libraries at the same time and without support for the custom column features) in the Google Play Store, with the full version available as an in-app purchase.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ric.calibrebox

Please check it out and leave any comments or suggestions (or, if you find any, bugs) so I can continue to improve it!

05-09-2015, 05:53 AM	#1
Hofferic Enthusiast Posts: 39 Karma: 41920 Join Date: May 2015 Location: Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite 1st gen, Moon+ Reader, CalibreBox Pro	CalibreBox - New Cloud-Based App Hey all, I have been growig frustrated with using Calibre Cloud Pro to access my Calibre library on the go. I used it because my primary computer is most often not in the same wireless network as my devices are (which is neccesary for Calibre Companion to work AFAIK). Calibre Cloud Pro did not support searching in book descriptions, filtering by attributes or sorting in any but the 4 preset modes. It also has a nasty habit of auto-updating its copy of my (big) library on my shitty mobile connection, which renders it unusable for minutes at a time if I change as much as a single Tag. It also only supports a single Library at a time, which I found restrictive. So, as a part of my bachelors thesis I wrote a new Android App that can open any number of Calibre libraries from a users Dropbox account. It supports search in Titles, Tags, Series names and book descriptions (all optional), has (optional) search suggestions for Titles, Tags and Series names and supports a wide variety of sorting and filtering options. Additionally you can sort or filter based on a custom column. The tags, author and series title shown in the detail view for a book link back to the search window for ease of use and there are tow download options to either open a book directly when a download is finished or leave the notification around for you to open at a later data. It will also warn you if the library is out of date but will not force the Update I also made sure it looks nice The App is available for free (though limited to 2 libraries at the same time and without support for the custom column features) in the Google Play Store, with the full version available as an in-app purchase. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ric.calibrebox Please check it out and leave any comments or suggestions (or, if you find any, bugs) so I can continue to improve it! Last edited by BetterRed; 05-30-2015 at 03:53 PM.