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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
Doesnt your OPDS client support search? If so you can simply use the same search expression you used to create the virtual library in the first place. And if it allows you to bookmark/save the search then it will work just as conveniently.
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There’s only one comic reader app I’ve found so far that can browse opds feeds — Chunky (there could be more, but I stopped looking when I found Chunky after trialing three others). As far as I can tell, it just lets me browse the feed — no search. It support bookmarking ‘folders’, but that’s not the issue.
In Chunky, I select the cloud button, then select calibre/opds as the type, then enter the ip and port of the calibre server and Chunky shows a pop-up list of options like tags, series, authors, and at the bottom of the list, the name of the library. Clicking one of the earlier options gives a list of those items (eg, clicking “series” shows all the series names), and if I select one of those, it returns all books matching that selection. So if I click series, it shows all the series, and I’d ideally like to see just the comic series. It doesn’t let me select multiple options, like two tags. As soon as I click one, I see all matching books. I’m guessing that’s just how the calibre feed works?
I suppose part of the problem is when you get to the list of books, it just shows book title, rather than being configurable to allow displaying series name and number in the series, as I can do when pushing books to my kindle. Most comics are in series, and clicking the comic tag to see just comics means they’re all sorted by title, so not grouped together and not clear which comic is in which series, where it’d be nicer to have the list sorted by series, number and title. So I was hoping to be able to get a list of just comic series. I could go back and edit all the book titles to include this info, but really like the cleanliness of keeping series name and number out of it.
Chunky does support browsing and downloading from websites, so I can just browse the calibre site and skip opds, but frankly I prefer the streamlined experience of quickly going through a feed to find what I want to sync.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
OPDS is sufficiently poorly designed that I am not particularly motivated to implement this
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I can appreciate that, especially if not too many use it. It’s certainly useable as is and I’ll stick with opds, but it just felt like an area that could benefit from a little tweaking, so I thought I’d raise the feedback since I am using the opds feature.
Anyway, thanks for calibre. Of the many programs I use personally, it’s one of the that few that I couldn’t do without!