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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
I don't want to use a file manager or badly designed App menu. I want an App on Android that as far as the App and Calibre is concerned, is like a physical ereader. Connect to USB, make change in Calibre (add or remove book), eject and then simply open the app and find the book is in the "app" homescreen or "Library" under recent.
Apps that only "import" from somewhere else on the phone storage or need the phone's filemanagler are smelling of DRM or incompetence.
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1. linux eink ereaders are using a usb mass storage module instead of android MTP. Don't expect the same reliability.
2. Google restricted the interaction with files. First in 4.4 (removing the write access to places outside /sdcard) and again in 7.1 (removing the possibility of open files from other places without creating a copy (in cache or importing)
3. Apps that only import are following google best practices. For an application POV having a homescreen or library often needs some kind of preproccesing. Blame google, do not blame app developers.
Saying that, KOReader can do what you want if you:
1. set the home folder to some folder inside /sdcard, like /sdcard/books
2. configure calibre to send books to that specific folder
The worst thing that can happen is that your history gets filled with non available ebooks.
Other good alternatives are Coolreader, Librera Pro and Readera (the first two are free software, available at Fdroid, the third is freeware)