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Originally Posted by cd2013
Not everyone will agree, but I find that these catalog-management applications, like Calibre for books or MediaMonkey for music, make much more sense if you use the full application on a PC or Mac, where having a bigger screen makes the app more productive, and a companion smartphone app, like Calibre Companion, to browse the library from a smartphone.
There is also the question of where to store the data (books) you are organising.
I wouldn't want to store it on a phone. I could keep the data on Dropbox or on a NAS and connect the phone, but why? I see many downsides in running Calibre from a phone vs a PC, but not many advantages.
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I wouldn't need to run full Calibre on smartphone or tablet. However, tablet users need a better interface that makes more efficient use of the display area.
On online shopping sites, there's usually a tag-browser like menu on the left where one can select multiple, hierarchical filters based on various criteria. I'd like something like that when browsing my Calibre library on the go.
Mind, it would be nice if one can run a client/server setup wherein main Calibre would be running on desktop or NAS and you can connect to it via Android/iOS app or another Calibre instance on a different tablet/PC while still retaining full capabilities (plugins, bulk metadata edit and conversion, cover generation, etc). Content server is much more powerful compared to before but it's still a far cry from full Calibre.