Calibre Sync for Android & iOS

[Glsparks2]

Originally Posted by Drew

Many thanks! That allows access to sorting etc. And the Virtual View option seems useful.

The need to copy the whole Calibre database outside of Calibre, is a bit of a killer, which I presume means syncing regularly. But CS is useful if CC doesn't get fixed. So I might use the "Smart Device" but only send a couple of books at a time. This last comment in case any others are contemplating CS without cloud Calibre.

I use Syncthing to keep my Calibre Library on my PC synched with Calibre Library on my android phone. I use CS as an eBook browser on my phone.

I just switched to Syncthing-Fork for android as it seems to work a little better with recent versions of Android OS.

Syncthing is much faster at wireless transfer than any variation of Calibre and Calibre Companion that I have used in the last 10 years or so.

[jehrler]

Well I just downloaded the iOS version and really like it...

But two issues that I have emailed the help email about but no answer yet.

First, I have created custom "read" columns for me and my wife. They are detected when I go to set them up but even with the two way data option it still comes back as read even when I mark them as unread in CS and vice versa. If anyone has this working a) How do you mark them read/unread if not via the CS swipe and b) what's your secret?

Second, tried to setup a custom date read column but even though I have the correct column and data type CS keeps popping up the attached dialog.

I even tried deleting the app off my iPhone and redownloading everything but that didn't fixit either one of these issues. Sigh.

[jehrler]

I did hear from the developer and they are looking at my library metadata file to see if they can figure it out. Will advise.

[jehrler]

Amazingly responsive developer. They rolled out a new iOS version after looking at my metadata file to fix the issue and it is already available.

Had to delete CS off my iPhone and resync but now both the date read and read status custom columns work!

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by jehrler

Amazingly responsive developer.

I have to agree. Numerous times I've reported issues to them and within days a new version is released with the bug zapped.

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[Tarran]

I've been looking everywhere and I can't seem to find any help for this issue so I figured I would try here. I've got the latest version downloaded and it shows all of my libraries without any issue. The problem comes when I download some books and click on the "Read" button. For the first few books it works fine but after that the app just hangs and never opens the dialog box. The only way to read more of the books is to restart my iPad completely. I have tried removing and reinstalling the app but I still get the same behavior.

iPad 10th Gen
iPadOS 17.4.1

[dunhill]

Originally Posted by Tarran

I've been looking everywhere and I can't seem to find any help for this issue so I figured I would try here. I've got the latest version downloaded and it shows all of my libraries without any issue. The problem comes when I download some books and click on the "Read" button. For the first few books it works fine but after that the app just hangs and never opens the dialog box. The only way to read more of the books is to restart my iPad completely. I have tried removing and reinstalling the app but I still get the same behavior.

iPad 10th Gen
iPadOS 17.4.1

What number of simultaneous downloads are you doing from calibre sync?
I have no problems downloading more than 10 books in a row.
Will it take place in your storage??

[Tarran]

Originally Posted by dunhill

What number of simultaneous downloads are you doing from calibre sync?
I have no problems downloading more than 10 books in a row.
Will it take place in your storage??

Sorry, I meant that after the book(s) are downloaded to my iPad, when I click on the "Read" button to have it open Apple Books it just hangs. Downloading to the device is not a problem, it's actually opening them.

[Wiggo]

I cannot reproduce this but I don’t use Apple Books.

I would contact the developer