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Originally Posted by Wiggo
I never tried Smart Device method, but after a quick look at the FAQ it looks like Smart device connects to a running Calibre via WiFi and downloads the selected books (like an eInk reader).
That’s why all your books are in the “all downloaded books” folder and you don’t see anything else if not connected - you have downloaded the books only!
So CS did nothing wrong, only as stated.
You need to select a new library via "select from device storage" and copy the Calibre library folder accordingly. I have never tried this either and don't know how CS deals with the fact that the ePubs are physically located in internal storage.
If I were you, I would try it all out with a very small test library
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According to https://calibresync.bitbucket.io/int...s/#usb-storage internal storage shouldn’t be a problem |
Not sure what you mean. I used CS to access the books from my main computer, exactly as the CS prompted. And of course the books were downloaded: how else can they be read offline? I don't understand why you say "downloaded the books
only". That's most of the point, to access the books. And the read function works, so the books arrived intact. Just no access to any sorting, filtering, custom fields (the other metadata seems to arrive OK, author, title, id codes, publisher, covers).
Also, you say you do not know how CS handles epubs located on the mobile device... if CS itself downloaded them, surely it can be expected to know where they are, and in fact it does, since it can transfer them to an ereader app.
And I strongly disagree: when you say CS did "only as stated". It states clearly that it fully supports custom fields. To me that means it downloads all metadata including custom fields AND allows one to see it (getting access should not be an optional extra!). And it is supposed to be able to carry back read date back to calibre, just like CC did.
Being able to control the book list format and to decide the sort order (on custom fields) and access filtering is a very major concern. How can you read a book if you can't easily find it?
It sounds like you are saying that one has to have THREE copies of one's library, the original on the main computer, the copy downloaded by CS which (you say) CS refuses to fully support unless I make yet another copy?