[Archived] Marvin ePub reader for iPad

[Faterson]

Originally Posted by andy88

Could someone explain how I could "Mirror" my Calibre Library on Dropbox.

That's very easy! Open your Calibre, go to "Preferences", and click on "Run welcome wizard". You will see the current location of your Calibre library there. Just press the "Change" button, and select a new folder for your Calibre library, but it must be a folder inside your Dropbox. That's it! If you need more help, just ask. Here's a good article covering this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/combine...access-ebooks/

PS: Of course, your Dropbox must be large enough to hold your entire Calibre library folder. Even if your free Dropbox (or SugarSync, Box.net, etc.) isn't quite big enough, paid Dropbox/SugarSync/etc. plans are pretty affordable. (I currently have 10.4 free GB in my Dropbox thanks to referrals from the past.)

[andy88]

Originally Posted by Philantrop

Two pages back in this very thread. (Please do take the time to use the search function...)

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...postcount=1184 (and the following few posts).

Thanks ! Appreciate it.

[andy88]

Originally Posted by Faterson

That's very easy! Open your Calibre, go to "Preferences", and click on "Run welcome wizard". You will see the current location of your Calibre library there. Just press the "Change" button, and select a new folder for your Calibre library, but it must be a folder inside your Dropbox. That's it! If you need more help, just ask. Here's a good article covering this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/combine...access-ebooks/

PS: Of course, your Dropbox must be large enough to hold your entire Calibre library folder. Even if your free Dropbox (or SugarSync, Box.net, etc.) isn't quite big enough, paid Dropbox/SugarSync/etc. plans are pretty affordable. (I currently have 10.4 free GB in my Dropbox thanks to referrals from the past.)

I have created a Mirror of my Calibre Library on Dropbox.

Thank you very much. Appreciate it a lot.

[Meemo]

Originally Posted by gwynevans

Just some scene-setting - the point of the Dropbox public folder is that it's contents are available to anyone with the right URL and the reports were about situations where the user's URLs had been shared & become generally known. The problem is that to use an OPDS feed, you need to access a server, which can be Calibre itself on your local network, but from elsewhere, an easy option is to use a Dropbox public folder containing the files that calibre2opds creates/copies, as long as you don't share your personal URL to your index.xml.

There are other options, but they're more techie... For instance, I have my firewall set to allow connections to a RasberryPi (a tiny low power computer) that's serving a copy of my Calibre db via a calibre-server process, so I can download books when I'm out away from home.

I was following just fine until the highlighted bit - I have excellent superficial computer knowledge, but then... Share my personal URL with who? Or is it where? And since I don't know what my index.xml is... Okay, maybe my superficial computer knowledge isn't all that excellent.

You see my problem?? I'm fine with how things are though, so I think I'm good. Sometimes my curiosity gets me in too deep... Sounds like, though, that since my Calibre library isn't in my public folder, I can safely do the OPDS catalog option in Marvin, adding .opds to the end of the link to my local Calibre folder. 1xx.xxx.x.xxx:8080/opds (Thanks to Faterson for that tip!) It's a nicer way to look for things when I'm home.

Thanks!

[Jessica Lares]

How would we summarize all the feature requests/and things that Kris has addressed so far that haven't been finalized yet? I could add it to the first page if that helps since it's a pretty big thread now.

[Philantrop]

as long as you don't share your personal URL to your index.xml.

Originally Posted by Meemo

I was following just fine until the highlighted bit - I have excellent superficial computer knowledge, but then...:blink: Share my personal URL with who?

That simply means you shouldn't share the link to your ebooks with others as that would potentially lead to ebook piracy.

[ilovejedd]

Really great to see collections and full epub metadata support in Marvin. Marvin's way, way better than Stanza now. Now, all I need is an iPhone/iPod Touch compatible version and iCloud syncing and it'll be perfect.

[Rachel]

Originally Posted by Meemo

I was following just fine until the highlighted bit - I have excellent superficial computer knowledge, but then... Share my personal URL with who? Or is it where? And since I don't know what my index.xml is... Okay, maybe my superficial computer knowledge isn't all that excellent.

You see my problem?? I'm fine with how things are though, so I think I'm good. Sometimes my curiosity gets me in too deep... Sounds like, though, that since my Calibre library isn't in my public folder, I can safely do the OPDS catalog option in Marvin, adding .opds to the end of the link to my local Calibre folder. 1xx.xxx.x.xxx:8080/opds (Thanks to Faterson for that tip!) It's a nicer way to look for things when I'm home.

Thanks!

These instructions written by Jane Litte on DearAuthor explain about creating a Dropbox library and then an OPDS catalog in nice simple steps - you will see from them what the index.xml file is. Personally I find this a brilliant way to access my books when I am away from home. Nobody else knows the url except me.

http://romance-around-the-corner.blogspot.co.uk/

[kyteflyer]

I've never noticed the floating book title on the opening screen before... is this fancy stuff really necessary? I can see the current book right up there... just curious. And is there a way to switch it off?

[institute]

I think that "fancy stuff" is called design and I like it. It is hardly baroque in its effect (and I am a minimalist). I do think it only started moving after the last update.

[Turtle91]

I thought it was an awesome effect! It doesn't interfere with the page or Marvin functions in any way....and it works...so why complain??

[kguil]

kyteflyer, which title is floating?

[institute]

I think he means the gray watermark of the book cover on the home page.

[kguil]

Oh. That animation takes over 16 seconds to "move" from one corner to the other. Is it so prominent?

I added it because it "reveals more of the cover" and think it's quite "interesting". If the vast majority hate it, I'll add a switch to turn it off.

Yes, it was introduced in the last version.

[institute]

I like it.