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Old 10-19-2015, 12:42 PM   #1
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Calibre Companion for iPad?

Is there a Calibre Companion app for iOS? I am wanting to add my iPad Mini to my list of reading devices. I am not having any success downloading the apk for iPad that I found doing a quick Google search.
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Old 10-19-2015, 12:47 PM   #2
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The only way you will be able to use it is if it is in the apple app store. I am doing a lot of looking at available apps right now seeing I have an IPad Air 2 coming next week. the calibre Companion is not showing in the app store at all. And anything android will not work on IOS, is what I am finding out.
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Old 10-19-2015, 01:04 PM   #3
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First chat room, first post, so pls excuse any errors but I am also seeking an app or means which will allow me to transfer the hundreds of books I have stored on Calibre on my Samsung laptop to my shiny new iPad. Any help gratefully received.
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Old 10-19-2015, 01:07 PM   #4
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I do not know yet but I am hoping that I will be able to connect my IPAD to my computer and transfer my library over usb.
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Old 10-19-2015, 02:30 PM   #5
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The best solution I have found is this. It's not Calibre Companion, but it will get your eBooks onto your iPad. You'll need Dropbox on your iPad and the computer that has Calibre. You'll also need the Marvin reader app on your iPad.

In Calibre, click Connect/Share and then Connect to Folder. Choose your Dropbox folder, or create a folder in Dropbox for your books and choose that. Send any or all your Calibre books to the Dropbox folder. Give them a chance to upload to the Dropbox server.

Then, in Marvin, choose Get Books and then Dropbox. All books in your Dropbox can now be imported into Marvin. Marvin is a very good iOS reader app. You can use Calibre to convert your books to ePub or other formats Marvin supports before sending them to Dropbox.

You can't organize your books in Marvin in the same ways you can in Calibre Companion, but you'll find that Marvin is very customizable. It's easy to find settings that are best for your eyes.

You may be able to use iTunes to get books onto your iPad, but I haven't used that method.
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Old 10-19-2015, 03:09 PM   #6
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Calibre Companion has its own thread on this forum. It is an android only app though

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=264
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Old 10-19-2015, 03:18 PM   #7
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I just use a reading application which will connect to calibre and allow downloads from the app, rather than sending from calibre. it works. Marvin, Shubook, eBook Mobi and many others do this. iBooks does not, but you can access your calibre books in dropbox (I store my calibre library in my dropbox folder on my computer) and then open in for any apps you may prefer, which dont connect directly with Calibre.

[edit] For the info of the OP... .apk extensions are always android. .ipa extensions are always iOS. HOWEVER you cannot just randomly download an .ipa file from somewhere on the net and expect it to work on your iOS device, because all iOS apps are tied to your app store ID. For example, if I were to upload something I bought from the store, and you downloaded it... it wont work. Its tied to my ID.

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Dropbox is the bet solution I've come up with as well and have Calibre set up to save all the books in Dropbox so that it Syncs across devices. I have, however, found the Marvin does not suit my needs in this area as it limits Dropbox access to 1000 books and the books are not sorted in any logical way that I can see.

I usually open the Dropbox app on my iPad, go to the book in the Calibre folder and then open it in whichever reader app I want via the Share button.
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Everybody has their favorite way of transferring books from Calibre to iThingies. I use Calibre's content server, which can be activated via the Connect/share button. This will start the server and give you a URL that you can use to access the server from any web browser (on your local network). In some reading apps such as Marvin, you can also access it via the OPDS catalog option.
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Old 10-20-2015, 10:16 AM   #10
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Thanks for all the great input.
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Old 10-21-2015, 05:50 AM   #11
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First chat room, first post, so pls excuse any errors but I am also seeking an app or means which will allow me to transfer the hundreds of books I have stored on Calibre on my Samsung laptop to my shiny new iPad. Any help gratefully received.
I will suggest that you buy/try the Marvin and/or the Gerty app for IOS.

You can transfer books from Calibre to either of those apps like this: (here I repeat myself from an earlier post)


You can transfer books from Calibre to Marvin like this:

In Marvin use Get books > OPDS > Search local network > Calibre library.

You must previously have started the Calibre Server to do this:

In Calibre Connect/Share > Start Content Server.

It also works in 8.3. It will even transfer metadata from Calibre to Marvin.

The only disadvantage is that you can't see those books that are already in Marvin.

You can also simply copy your books to Dropbox and then fetch them in one the mentioned apps.
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Old 10-21-2015, 10:34 AM   #12
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Also in my several posts in the link below:

Transfering book (or many books at once) wirelessly using any free apps with wi-fi capabilities.

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Transfering over USB using Goodreader app, without iTunes

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=262985


Wireless transfer using Safari browser and Calibre content server

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Using USB memory stick and HDD, with or without jailbreaking

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...3&postcount=14

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You can transfer books from Calibre to Marvin like this:
In Marvin use Get books > OPDS > Search local network > Calibre library.
You must previously have started the Calibre Server to do this:
In Calibre Connect/Share > Start Content Server.
It also works in 8.3. It will even transfer metadata from Calibre to Marvin.

The only disadvantage is that you can't see those books that are already in Marvin.
A Custom Column is an easy way to see which books are already in Marvin and which are not.
- In calibre create a custom column "Marvin".
- For Column Type select "Text, but with a fixed set of permitted values". Use the values "Not In Marvin, In Marvin".
- Use "#marvin" as the lookup/search name in the Tag Browser.
- Populate the custom column with the correct values. Use a "bulk" edit of custom metadata for large libraries.
- After opening the OPDS "calibre Library" Marvin and calibre will have the same Tag Browser capability and you can easily sort by "Not In Marvin" or "In Marvin".
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First chat room, first post, so pls excuse any errors but I am also seeking an app or means which will allow me to transfer the hundreds of books I have stored on Calibre on my Samsung laptop to my shiny new iPad. Any help gratefully received.
I recommend Bookmaster. I downloaded all my books (more than hundreds ) from Calibre to my iPad literally in several clicks. You can even continue your reading while your hundreds of books being downloaded in the background (note that Marvin and other readers just can't).
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You can even continue your reading while your hundreds of books being downloaded in the background (note that Marvin and other readers just can't).
That's not quite true? I know of at least three that allow reading in while downloading in parallel.
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