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Originally Posted by chaley
No. There are some apps like CC that can read a metadata.db in the cloud. As you said, CC can read a local metadata.db. CC stores all calibre metadata locally for books that it transfers.
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But CC creates its own metadata store that is not compatible with the one Calibre creates, and can hence only be used for material CC transfers.
If I were starting from scratch, using CC and only doing wireless transfers would be tempting. But I have multiple devices, Wifi is problematic on a couple, and a wired connection or dropping things directly onto an sdcard mounted as a drive is simply faster.
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You seem to be asking for an app that can extract all the calibre metadata from a set of books on the device. Some reader apps can extract some metadata, but I have never seen one that can extract all metadata. In fact, I haven't seen one that can handle custom columns at all.
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I'm
think what I'm asking for is something that can read metadata.calibre on device and display
it. Poking around, it looks like it contains the basic data I want.
My use case is wanting to know what books are on device without opening my eBook viewer. I can look at /sdcard/Books in a file manager to get a files list, but that's insufficient.
I don't need
all metadata just to see if a book exists on device. Title and Author would do in a pinch, but Size, Date added, Series, and Tags for classification would be icing on that cake. I don't need covers, custom columns and the like.
But either way such a thing doesn't seem to exist. (There are SQLite viewers/editors for Android and I've looked at several, but they don't do what I'd like.)
I find that lack mystifying, but I appear to be stuck with it.
Thanks for chiming in.
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Dennis