[skillachie]

Thank you for taking us for a spin lorikitty. Really appreciated. Will clarify some of the points


Thank you for the excellent and constructive feedback lorikitty. We will be able to address all of the points mentioned and look forward to following up with you again when we do.

Happy Reading

[*]Genres - only some books display my Genre tags in the web interface (labelled #genre), most don't

Will have this added to development to be reviewed and resolved.

[*]Series info - I saw elsewhere on MR that Series info will be coming soon - hopefully that'll plug into the Calibre plugin somehow?

Series information not available yet but is planned

[*]Calibre comments - these are often part of the metadata downloaded from GR/Amazon and give a synposis/back-matter text-based description of each book. Without it I'm forced to rely on book covers, which is very frustrating for me - I choose poorly when judging a book by its cover :bookworm

We had the issue previously where some users preferred to keep the metadata that was synced from their library. We will have this enabled by default but have the option to disable automatically fetching metadata for upload eBooks. This is planned with the addition of some more features later this year

[*]Default setting for uploaded books is "public" - found where to change it in Settings, but I'm not comfortable sharing my purchased books publically

To be clear the books marked as "public" are not shared. It just means once the ability to share eBooks and your reader profile is released(currently in development) then those titles will show on your bookshelf for your family or friends to see your eBook collection just as they would browse your physical bookshelf.

This can be toggled to private by default and you can selective choose which books you would like to be shown on your bookshelf and the ones to kept hidden

[*]Grid vs table view on the web interface - I'm not a fan of the cover grid view. I want to know what the book's about before I start reading.

Great point. We will have this added.

Originally Posted by lorikitty

I'm taking it for a spin, and so far have these questions/concerns (although some are about the site):

• Genres - only some books display my Genre tags in the web interface (labelled #genre), most don't
• Series info - I saw elsewhere on MR that Series info will be coming soon - hopefully that'll plug into the Calibre plugin somehow?
• Calibre comments - these are often part of the metadata downloaded from GR/Amazon and give a synposis/back-matter text-based description of each book. Without it I'm forced to rely on book covers, which is very frustrating for me - I choose poorly when judging a book by its cover
• Default setting for uploaded books is "public" - found where to change it in Settings, but I'm not comfortable sharing my purchased books publically
• Grid vs table view on the web interface - I'm not a fan of the cover grid view. I want to know what the book's about before I start reading.

My current well-loved setup is using Calibre Companion w/Moon+Reader on my devices to download/sync books and bookmarks. From there, I browse for the next book by a wide variety of tags, including genre, series, author, and title. I also have custom columns set up to match my Goodreads labels which helps find my next read. This service seems to fall pretty short of that experience. The only area where it excels is the web-based reading - that is spot-on.