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I'm trying it on my eink phone, and it's working quite well.
Because I had tried it before, when I changed the default location of books it had some issues moving part of the already existing on the device to a new location. I had to delete those books because it couldn't match them to books in Calibre next time I connected. Although that might be because I think I also mixed the connection mode, I've tried before both connecting to Calibre as a wireless device and connecting to the content server, and I think the books downloaded when connecting as wireless device couldn't be moved, the template I use in Calibre to name the downloaded file wasn't to JetReader liking 😀.
Anyway, I finally settled to connecting to Calibre Content Server, and after some adjustments I was able to download all my TBR books and books I frequently re-read.
One thing I liked is that when connecting to Calibre Content Server you have the option to configure to which library you want to connect. With Calibre Sync you connect and sync to all the libraries at once, you can't choose. I have some experimental libraries with duplicated books, and a temp library where books pending to validate before moving them to the final library and not so interested in having those libraries in the device.
By the way, I don't need it, but other people might find useful to be able to add the library name to the path of the books downloaded, or if they're using virtual libraries or a custom column in Calibre use that in the template to determine the path, I don't know if that would be possible, or given that other people don't use Calibre connections to download books it would be incompatible with those other connections.
Now the reader part of the application. I'm not much picky about formatting, so I'm not your test user for that, but I think that part other users might find that it needs improvement. I'm currently reading Doomsday Book, from Connie Willis, and when I read in my Kobo there are parts in the chapters where the size of the letters is smaller to mark that is an annotation in the book, apart from the main narration, and I don't notice that change in size in my phone. That might be because is a phone, with a smaller screen size, but it could be because JetReader overrides the size formatting.
Another thing I've noticed is that when you call up the menu when reading (in my case I do it to navigate to another chapter) sometimes the lower part of the screen reserves the space for the menu when returning to reading again, maybe it's the space for the controls when using text to speech, but I'm not using it, I only see the blank space. It is not something happening every time I call up the menu, I can't reproduce it at will, if I find a pattern for this behavior I'll report here.
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