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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I read a couple of the reviews about caibre companion.
I've been using it since the iOS version first came out. There are a couple of things to keep in mind. First, it's a straight port of the calibre companion app for android. Second, while it seems than development on the android version continues, the iOS version was basically completed as the two developers were in the process of leaving for other work and the iOS version only gets updated when they have time from their day jobs, so it's not exactly a polished iOS product like you see from a major company with a big programming staff. [note, this is my understanding of the situation. I'm not connected with anyone involved so don't take my understanding as gospel]
Looking at the reviews, it seems that people either give it 5 stars or 1 star. While I can think of a lot of improvements (I'm a developer, I've found that after you get a program into customers hands and see how they actually use it, you spend a good year or two of improving and fixing bugs to get a polished product), it does the job that I need it to do quite nicely, so I would give it 5 stars. I can't really say if it will do what you need it to do, but it does follow the calibre UI pretty closely. That means that there is a definite un-iOS feel about it.
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Thanks for the feedback pwalker8 (myself also a
developer - more precisely an oracle database developer
Really love Caliber, and anyone seriously with ebooks quickly learn that its hard as we may have to buy ebooks from different stores and/or eve websites.. its tricky, so Caliber its a must to have all our books (and "others" ssssh
organized.. Couldnt live without it, thats why its good to know theres a caliber companion option.
Seems theres also some ios readers able to connect directly to caliber server, but then they dont support PDFs, or bad/low features when reading PDFs (which is the best format for technical books).. so seems theres not many alternatives in ios for the ios caliber companion.. as seems not many readers that connect directly to a caliber server give good PDF support ?!..
