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Erlend · 04-14-2025, 09:12 AM

Thanks!

About the underlying Android notification icons: does this happen on the Home screen, on the Reader screen (when you're inside a book), or both? I just pushed an update (2025-04-14) that has a "Report a problem" button in Settings => About. Would you mind clicking this button, and just typing something quick about the icons being visible, then submitting it? That would send me a set of technical parameters about your screen and Android configuration, that could help me debug this issue. (I've seen the same on my Onyx Boox device previously, but I thought I had solved it. Obviously not.)

If you could also force an auto detect attempt (for example Settings => Calibre => Automatic server connection => Test connection), and report that as a separate problem right after the auto detection failed (then it will be in the short log excerpt that is included in the problem report), that would also be very useful!

Adding books: yes, in the current version, you can only select files (one or more in the same folder), or add books by connecting to a Calibre content server. The app stores a copy of the book files in its internal data folder, and this is also why you cannot specify where they are saved -- they are always saved internally. I have on my todo list to make this more customizable, and for example allow adding all books in a folder. That side of things (adding books) is not a lot of work, I think. But the other side (storing books outside of the app data folder) is a bit more complicated. For that to work in your use case, you would have to a) set the storage location to your folder, and b) tell JetReader how to create the same folder structure (author/series/file, probably also with a pattern in the file name, like [series index] - [title], or something). Does that sound like a good solution, or do you have other suggestions?

And yes, the Calibre browser is a bit simple, as it is based on the fairly simple content server API. So the "sort order" window is just that: it sends a sort order to Calibre, telling it in which order to list the books. But nothing is impossible; it's just a few more calls to download enough data to make a better categorization on the client side, allowing you to drill down, and even search (like you can in the "real" library browser for books that are already added to your JetReader library). I'll add this to my todo list!

04-14-2025, 09:12 AM	#12
Erlend Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2019 Location: Norway Device: Onyx Boox Poke 3 with JetReader	Thanks! About the underlying Android notification icons: does this happen on the Home screen, on the Reader screen (when you're inside a book), or both? I just pushed an update (2025-04-14) that has a "Report a problem" button in Settings => About. Would you mind clicking this button, and just typing something quick about the icons being visible, then submitting it? That would send me a set of technical parameters about your screen and Android configuration, that could help me debug this issue. (I've seen the same on my Onyx Boox device previously, but I thought I had solved it. Obviously not.) If you could also force an auto detect attempt (for example Settings => Calibre => Automatic server connection => Test connection), and report that as a separate problem right after the auto detection failed (then it will be in the short log excerpt that is included in the problem report), that would also be very useful! Adding books: yes, in the current version, you can only select files (one or more in the same folder), or add books by connecting to a Calibre content server. The app stores a copy of the book files in its internal data folder, and this is also why you cannot specify where they are saved -- they are always saved internally. I have on my todo list to make this more customizable, and for example allow adding all books in a folder. That side of things (adding books) is not a lot of work, I think. But the other side (storing books outside of the app data folder) is a bit more complicated. For that to work in your use case, you would have to a) set the storage location to your folder, and b) tell JetReader how to create the same folder structure (author/series/file, probably also with a pattern in the file name, like [series index] - [title], or something). Does that sound like a good solution, or do you have other suggestions? And yes, the Calibre browser is a bit simple, as it is based on the fairly simple content server API. So the "sort order" window is just that: it sends a sort order to Calibre, telling it in which order to list the books. But nothing is impossible; it's just a few more calls to download enough data to make a better categorization on the client side, allowing you to drill down, and even search (like you can in the "real" library browser for books that are already added to your JetReader library). I'll add this to my todo list!