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Originally Posted by Erlend
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.)
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It's only happening on the home screen. I've sent the report.
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Originally Posted by Erlend
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!
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Report sent.
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Originally Posted by Erlend
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?
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I was thinking of a workflow of connecting the reader to my PC and using Calibre to manage the books in bulk on the boox (copy to boox/delete from boox) so being able to specify the download directory (eg Books) would make that simpler.
Having the option to also match the folder structure when downloading using Jetreader would also be ideal but more important would be supporting/updating the .driveinfo.calibre & .metadata.calibre files so any books downloaded or deleted by Jetreader would show up when connecting via Calibre and any books copied/deleted to/from the boox would be updated in Jetreader (so keeping the two connection methods in sync).
In general I think managing a large number of books on the device is easier on the larger PC screen using Calibre then directly on the device with the Jetreader library function being used more to browse the downloaded books library to select a book to read or when at home to browse the Calibre server to select a book to download and read.
Alternatively if your vision for the app is to have it manage locally a small subset of a main Calibre library (i.e books read/being read) then another option could be to support in addition to the remote Calibre server a local point in time copy of the Calibre database & books on the device to enable browsing and downloading from the local "main library" when connectivity to the remote Calibre server is not possible.