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Originally Posted by Steve_Haley
This is the part that has stopped me from making the reader app previously. There's clearly some demand, but at the same time, the problem must be very difficult to solve. If other reader apps aren't doing it quite the way people would like, despite having been actively worked on for years, it's probable that we wouldn't manage to do it right either.
The integration is actually pretty good now. With one caveat, the system is similar to Android. Our alpha version now lets you connect, get books and send books to another reader app. Much like on Android, the system gives us a list of apps which can handle the given book type, which we present to the user.
The one catch is that there's no concept of shared storage between iOS apps. So when CC sends a book to a reader app, the reader has to create a separate copy for its own folders. This is only an issue if people have particularly large libraries, and open each book. Until they actually open it, there's only one copy.
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I personally feel a reader app that can sync positions between ios and android and works with calibre companion will sell well. Currently I don't think any epub app has a reading position sync even just for android that is good enough or if its good its very convoluted to set up so most people don't bother.
As you will be the author for both calibre companion and this you should be able to find a way to sync positions without having to upload the whole book somewhere with the same exact filename etc which many app require. With chaley involved with calibre as well you could probably also make a system where lets say I have marked errors that I have found in a book while reading. When I sync calibre with calibre companion those errors are synced with calibre and I can use calibre editor to fix those errors.
People will pay for such features depite most people saying at the moment that no need but they just don't realise whats possible. They are thinking about the reader and how they use their current use case not at what is possible.