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Originally Posted by zan5hin
I ended up doing a full sync of my Calibre library to dropbox, which took a few days. The app is now working properly, and changes to my Calibre metadata are updated when I refresh.
A few suggestions, if it is possible would be to see the file format and/or the file size from the current view. If that is not possible, at least on the details page. At the moment, the only way to see this info is to click on a book, then click the dropbox button, then click download. Too many clicks 
I would be highly unlikely to want to open a PDF on my Android smartphone, I would only open PDFs on my iPad in Marvin.
Also, some different views would be good. A cover grid view would be nice, with big covers, at least double the size they are now. Something like 3x3 covers visible at one time would be good for me.
It would also be logical that if you are on the details page of a book, if I could do a side swipe to go to the details of the previous/next book in my library.
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Hey, quick little list as I should be studying for finals
If you have the pro version, the filesize of your chosen default download format (or, if none is set, the biggest format) is shown in the detail view. I might extend this with an option to show ALL formats and their sizes. (there is currently a bug making it so this only works with a default format set, but the fix for that is done and will be in the next update)
You can filter the book list for the availability of a file format. If you set this to the same format as your default download format you will never see books which do not fit your criteria for the device you are using. It is however not currently possible to filter out a single format as that would probably be of little help (because there will certainly be several formats in any given library that are impractical in many situations, like doc for example)
I had planned to include a grid view and will look into it again when I am done with the current round of improvements, but the way the list is currently rendered makes this non-trivial. supporting different layouts will require either a new architecture for that or some rather involved swapping of references to volatile database objects etc. I am quite sure I can make it work, but right now the other "nice to have" features I want to/will work on are lower hanging fruit, so to speak
Swiping from book entry to book entry sounds like a cool thing. It is definitely on my to-do list now (of course as a optional new behaviour :P) but as with the grid layout I will have to find a way to get at the currently displayed list of books to keep things consistent and avoid crashing if this list is unavailable (for example after restoring the app from the recent tasks list) and other technical stuff like that. But if I can get that sorted the rest should be rather simple to do. So he spoke whilst shoveling his own grave
Thank you for your ideas, i will definitely work on them but again I am currently working on a handful of smaller things plus university does take up a lot of time right now
