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Originally Posted by cedhax
I see. I agree it'll be convenient if there is one more option next to "Overwrite Metadata" to overwrite the EPUB such that the app downloads the book and then deletes the book it's supposed to replace automatically. But will there be a catch?
I haven't played with fanficfare. Does it only deal with that one particular website? If yes, then it can make much stronger assumptions about what's supposed to be newer or older versions of the "same" book, where MapleRead or any other similar more general-purpose reader apps can't.
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FanFicFare supports multiple websites but since it's purpose-built to download fanfiction, it has the programming logic to check for updated stories.
Mind, with Marvin, if you sync the calibre library to Dropbox and use Marvin's built-in Dropbox integration, you can actually overwrite existing fics as long as the title and author pseudonym doesn't change (ergo, same filename in Calibre). Alas, you lose all bookmarks and annotations as those are tied to the md5 hash of the epub file. Well, not quite lose since those are still stored in the database. They just won't be linked with the updated version. Alas, Marvin doesn't support book/annotation syncing and any other source aside from Dropbox (e.g. Calibre OPDS), it wouldn't allow you to delete/overwrite existing files.
How does MapleRead handle collisions? Tried downloading files with the same filename from HTML webpage and the succeeding copies seem to be just stuck in processing.
One problem I have with MapleRead is the alert GUI doesn't work properly on my iPads (iOS 10.3.3) so I'm just randomly pressing buttons.