Calibre Download for Tablets?

[Barbara1955]

Originally Posted by gweminence

Yet another is a 3rd-party android app that's specifically made to do just what you're asking about. The single one of this type that I know of is not free.

And where do I find this?

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Calibre Does Not reconise Just a SD Card..there for there IS no way to do Any steps! Also You Cant Grab & Drag the ebooks in calibre any where!

No true! However why would you want to try and use drag-and-drop rather than the facilities built into calibre for handling books in a tidy way.

As long as the SD card can be seen as though it was a disk drive, then the Calibre "Send to Folder" or "Save to Disk" facilities can be used to put and/or remove books on the SD card. The "Send to Folder" would probably be the best as it is treated as a psuedo device and the Device interface plugin for the Folder device can be custimized to preset things like the formats you want to allow.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by itimpi

As long as the SD card can be seen as though it was a disk drive

This appears to be the issue, her device is no longer seen as a disk drive. alansplace suggested she insert/connect the SD card directly to the computer, but the concept went right past her. I'm guessing she would need a Sd card adapter to do this on her machine.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Katie1

And where do I find this?

You don't need it. It requires you to set up the calibre content server. All Android tablets I know of have a browser. If you've set up the calibre content server, then all you need is 1) the built in browser, or 2) any of the free Android ebook readers that will connect to the content server. Aldiko will do it. Moon+ will do it. There are others. That's 3 free methods.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Well darn! OK now how do I put Linux on my Sylnania mini with 2.2 OS? I am sooo Non-Techy
Baby steps

You don't need to do that, and you probably can't and you almost certainly don't want to. You want an ebook reader on your tablet (you probably have one, and Aldiko and Moon+ and several others are available). You then need either of these:

1) attach tablet as HD (apparently you can't do this), or
2) take out SD card and connect to your computer running calibre (this should always be possible if you have an SD card in your tablet), or
3) connect via WiFi to your computer running calibre with the content server turned on from a WiFi enabled tablet.

[Barbara1955]

I Have taken the SD Card & Connected it to the Computer! But Calibre Wont send anything to it! I even tried Send to Disk tab IN Calibre!

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Calibre Does Not reconise Just a SD Card..there for there IS no way to do Any steps! Also You Cant Grab & Drag the ebooks in calibre any where!

select a book. 'open containing folder', then drag ebook file from that folder to the sd card's folder. it'll be copied there

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by Katie1

I Have taken the SD Card & Connected it to the Computer! But Calibre Wont send anything to it! I even tried Send to Disk tab IN Calibre!

If you have connected it to the computer, you should have a drive letter for it and be able to see what's on the card (if anything is there). Do you have a drive letter and can you see what's on it?

[DuskyRose]

Originally Posted by Katie1

I Have taken the SD Card & Connected it to the Computer! But Calibre Wont send anything to it! I even tried Send to Disk tab IN Calibre!

I've done it before, plenty of times, and Calibre has recognized my SD and MicroSD cards just fine.

Before Calibre can recognize it, the computer has to recognize it. I think that's what you need to do, figure out why your computer isn't recognizing your card as a hard disk.

Try changing card readers. I've had a few card readers that just weren't worth spit when it came to actually reading the cards. Once I moved a card to a different reader, they were fine. If you don't have a different reader, try plugging it into a different port. Sometimes my ports give me fits. Especially the one on the front of my computer. The ones in the back always work fine. (We really need to take mine apart and check the connections one of these days...)

If it still won't work, try a different card. I had one just die on me and nothing in the house would recognize it, and I couldn't even reformat it.

But until your computer can see the card, Calibre can't either.

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by DuskyRose

I've done it before, plenty of times, and Calibre has recognized my SD and MicroSD cards just fine.

DuskyRose and I are saying the same things. I'm trying to find out if your computer is recognizing your card and DuskyRose is guessing that it isn't, based on what you've posted. If it isn't, I agree with the steps suggested by DuskyRose. I've had card reader problems and USB port problems also.

[Divingduck]

And in addition to Starson17: Is the SD-Card already formated? May be you need to do it again.

[gweminence]

Originally Posted by Starson17

You don't need it. It requires you to set up the calibre content server.

If you've set up the calibre content server, then all you need is 1) the built in browser,...et al

*Scratches his head.*

Anyway, you'll note that method #1 that I told her was, in fact, the browser....browsing...of which you speak.

Katie, if you want to check out the paid app that I mentioned, search for 'calibre' on the android market.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Katie1

I Have taken the SD Card & Connected it to the Computer! But Calibre Wont send anything to it! I even tried Send to Disk tab IN Calibre!

The Send to disk tab will not be active or seen unless calibre recognizes a device. The fact that you see that Send to disk tab means calibre sees something. Here are some thoughts.

You may see the Send to device tab because you have another device connected to your computer. Even a charging iPhone could be detected as a device. If you have more than one device connected to your computer calibre will not see the second device.

If you connected your SD card (just the card) to your computer and your computer sees it as a drive then you can use the Connect to folder feature to connect to one folder on the card and calibre will treat it as a device.

[Barbara1955]

Well I borrowed my sons Literati & spent the day downloading the ebooks from calibre to the SD Card in it. Now I get the 1st 6-10pages then the rest of the book[s] are BLANK in both the Literati & on the Tablet!

I have 3 ereader thingy on my Tablet ... Adobe Reader ... DroidReader .... & ALDIKO 1st things I put on when I purchsed it! I also have App2SD someone suggested.

I will look for the Calibre thingy

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Katie1

Well I borrowed my sons Literati & spent the day downloading the ebooks from calibre to the SD Card in it. Now I get the 1st 6-10pages then the rest of the book[s] are BLANK in both the Literati & on the Tablet!

If the books are in epub format and when you view them in the calibre viewer they look fine then you are most likely running into a internal (to the epub) html size restriction.

Since ereaders have limited memory and processing power Adobe created their ePub renderer to process epub books in chucks no larger then 300k in size. Many public domain books, internally, will be just one large lump of html. These books work on your computer (big memory lots of power) but fail on a ereader.

To fix this calibre defaults to breaking the internal html into chunks of no more than 260k during conversion. If you do a epub to epub conversion calibre will break up the internal code into bite size chunks your ereader can process.