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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
With an Android ereader, or indeed any ereader that supports system folders, Calibre is not strictly necessary. For example, with Koreader Calibre becomes not really necessary. Just drag and drop. And the program can handle just aout any nasty file, unlike Nickle that might explode with a funny epub.
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KOReader can handle some error ridden books better than Nickel. OTOH, I've had KOReader have issues with large or complex books that Nickel will handle without issue. Since my workflow involves passing any epubs through Sigil and epubcheck before sending them to my ereaders, the ability to handle error ridden books is not important to me.
While KOReader can use calibre's metadata.calibre file to do searches, I find Nickel's search capability to be more powerful. Without calibre, KOReader is limited to directory structures while are almost useless with ~13,000 ebooks on an ereader. I won't even get into the time wasted on maintaining the directory structure without which drag and drop is pretty much useless.
I would love to see someone produce a directory structure which would allow the following book to found easily by title, editor or author without exceeding any limits on file path lengths:
Title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
Editor: Robert Silverberg (ed)
Authors: Stanley G. Weinbaum, John W. Campbell, Lester del Rey, Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt, Lewis Padgett, Clifford D. Simak, Fredric Brown, Murray Leinster, Judith Merril, Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury, C. M. Kornbluth, Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber, Anthony Boucher, James Blish, Arthur C. Clarke, Jerome Bixby, Tom Godwin, Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Daniel Keyes & Roger Zelazny
I will admit that I have Plato and KOReader both installed to play with but Nickel is my goto book reader using either RMSDK or the Webkit based renderer.