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Old 02-08-2017, 10:25 PM   #29621
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Originally Posted by bookiebabe View Post
Ok, I'm on verge of throwing brand new bloody Asus Zenpad against wall, and hoping its microchips esplode in a blaze of glory that takes out me, my laptop, and the last 3 days of aggravation desperately trying to get my bloody books in huge Calibre library to show up as book covers on "My Shelf" in either Calibre Companion, Moon+Reader Pro, or FB Reader Premium.
How did you get them onto the Zenpad?

My primary eBook viewer device at the moment is an HP Slate 7 4200en 7" tablet running Android 4.2 Jellybean (and it will stay there because HP isn't offering updates for this device.)

My eBook are on a microSD card, and I use a USB cable to connect to the desktop where Calibre is to transfer volumes, and use Calibre to do the transfer. I looked at Moon Reader+, but prefer FBReader, and use the Pro version.

My eBook cover show up fine in FBReader's Bookshelf view, but I prefer the Classic interface. Populating the Bookshelf view simply takes too long, and it's faster and easier to select from the Classic menu. (I have several thousand books on device, which affects the speed at which the Bookshelf display populates. It's easier and faster for me to select by author, title, series, or tags.)

I assume you have FBReader configured to know where to look for your books. You may need to tell it to rescan to pick them up and populate the Bookshelf display.

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Setting up a device for enjoyment should not be akin to having root canal surgery. Sheesh!
I've had root canals. Fortunately, they were not nearly as unpleasant as they could have been.

Getting various Android tablets working as desired has provided a few challenges.

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Extreme frustrations... and yes, I can see books by author in 'Calibre folder' format, but I don't want to have to search by author. If I was ok searching by author, I wouldn't have spent equivalent of year of my life updating Calibre metadata with series, cover, description etc. Graaaargh!!!
FBReader here picks up on the Calibre provided metadata, as long as it knows where to look for the transferred books.
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