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Originally Posted by swineone
Hello,
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- I already purchased MapleRead SE, so if I could integrate that with whatever solution I decide to go with, that would be great. However, I'm open to spending some money if necessary (say up to $50) to implement my dream library management setup. However, I don't do subscriptions, on principle -- I'd rather pay $50 once than pay $20 or even $10 a year for an app.
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I bought MapleRead SE several years ago, and the app has kept improving since then without charging me a single extra dime. In the meantime, I have spent thousands of dollars buying several generations of iPhones and iPads. Even though MapleRead SE has been my preferred ebook reader since then, I wouldn't have paid $50 in one shot. However, I wouldn't mind at all if I was charged $5 to $10 annually. That will give the developer a stronger incentive to continue updating.
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- There doesn't seem to be the concept of syncing per se between Calibre and MapleRead. Rather, it seems like I need to add the Calibre OPDS content server to Maple Read, then tell it to download all books, and it will skip whichever books were already downloaded. Besides being a little awkward, it doesn't seem to take care of the reverse sync (iPad -> Mac), plus I have no idea if edited metadata in Calibre on the Mac will be reflected in MapleRead after a "sync", or if it will just skip over.
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To be fair, I think the issue has equally have to do with Calibre's model. Currently Calibre insists to be a OPDS server, but not a client, even for another Calibre instance running on another device/computer. If it worked as a client, then MapleRead SE, acting as a server, could have easily transfer data to Calibre. Note that such an OPDS client plug-in would be mostly of generic nature, as OPDS is an open (vs. proprietary) protocol, that will potentially benefit all existing and future reader apps on iOS and Android.
If you have modified the metadata of some books in Calibre after downloading them to MapleRead, you can easily transfer the metadata from Calibre to MapleRead, if you select "Overwrite Metadata" instead of "Skip Book". It'll just take doing an experiment on one book to confirm that this is indeed the case.