I just want to read books and delete them!

[SCION]

Do you have a shortcut to the Aldiko app on your homescreen? That would be the only way to get to its library (from within the app).

[peaceridge]

Originally Posted by SCION

Do you have a shortcut to the Aldiko app on your homescreen? That would be the only way to get to its library (from within the app).

It was only taking me to my last opened book. But, I guess you're the charm as I just tried again and it worked this time. I guess I wasn't holding my mouth right or something!

Thanks again, you're the best!

Lyn

[anamardoll]

Originally Posted by peaceridge

It was only taking me to my last opened book. But, I guess you're the charm as I just tried again and it worked this time. I guess I wasn't holding my mouth right or something!

Thanks again, you're the best!

Lyn

I noticed this with the Moon+ book desktop shortcuts. More often than not, they'd take you to the last open book, instead of the book they were supposedly associated with.

I suspect that this may have to do with whether or not the app is still "open" in a wait state behind the scenes. If the app is open, then the shortcut may simply invoke the open app, which would take you to your last read page. If the app is closed, which will only happen with a reboot or a task manager app (which, with Android is largely unnecessary, or so I understand), then perhaps the shortcut behaves as one would expect.

This is my hypothesis. Too lazy to test, though.

[richard_iii]

Well you can always do what I do. I use the nook as a reader, game player and faux tablet , not a storage device. My books sit on a NAS box. When I want to read one I copy it to the nook either using samba or some file manger and then open it with whatever reader suits me. When finished I delete it form the nook using samba or whatever file manager suits me.
Easy peasy as they say

[peaceridge]

Originally Posted by richard_iii

Well you can always do what I do. I use the nook as a reader, game player and faux tablet , not a storage device. My books sit on a NAS box. When I want to read one I copy it to the nook either using samba or some file manger and then open it with whatever reader suits me. When finished I delete it form the nook using samba or whatever file manager suits me.
Easy peasy as they say

Thanks, I think I have a handle on it now - not perfect, but much better than before. I sort of do what you do. I use Calibre on my PC to copy my books to the NC. So far I can't get Calibre to move the books to the correct directory on the NC, so I use File Explorer on the NC to move the books to Aldiko, and finally, delete them after I've read them.

I learn more every day - just yesterday I figured out how to get Calibre to recognize the rooted side of the NC - before I was rebooting into the B&N side to get Calibre to recognize it. Obviously I have my rooting on the SD card. Eventually I'll figure out how to get them to the correct library on the NC and can stop having to move them manually.