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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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.
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That's likely for speed. I remember seeing stats for CC and some people had 50,000 books there. On Android, a JSON with that many books is likely going to be insupportable.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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.
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Yep, none exist.
Not really mystifying. I'm guessing most who use Calibre and Android just use Calibre Companion rather than USB. Either that or they just browse the books via their preferred reading app without need for a third-party listing/browsing app.
That said, why do you wish to avoid using your ebook viewer in order to view books stored on device? Does it take a really long time to load or something?